Lunghua, Jan. 22.
A faint echo of the fierce Poppy War waged in Hainghua two years ago, reached us in the news that the local magistrate has torn up four hundred mow of growing Poppy in a remote neighbourhood on the rocky peninsula near ths sea, So far as your correspondent can learn, this is the only place where the villagers have attempted to revive the opium growing that was finally stopped in February 1913, This province has been ¢e-clared clean of opium growing, and the small patches just troyed before any of the drug had been gathered, is further roof that the Government is making good' in this matter.
Consumption not Reduced.
The consumption of opium is not reduced to the. low ebb of the production, by any means, Many deputies are actively at work, bu" they seem to be more cones-ned their own pockets with jan destroying the traffic. The rich smoker is arrested -nd Pays a fine in proportion to his ability ium sot is un-It is claimed, apparently on good authority, that ~ome-times the non-smoking rich man's house is searched, and the pipes or opium are discovered that vere Placed there by the runners thou-selves—they have an abundant supply. Then the zealous reform. er levies a heavy fine.
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