1 Anti-Opium Association was present yesterday at the burning of opium and morphia outside the Temple of Agriculture. According to the printed report of the Metropolitan Police, the opium, was entirely of native pro-yn, amounted to about 200 1b. and consisted of small packages, sziving the appearance of having been seized from railway passengers' luggage. Morphia and morphia pills formed by far the larger. bulk of the narcotics. The morphia in pure state amounted 770 ounces. -Morphia mixed with flour in preparation for pill-making, consisted of 1,107 parcels, varying from a few ounces to two or three 1b. each. Chintan pills were represented by 28 bags, each containing 10,000 pirls, and broken quantities totalling about 250 ounces in weight. img represented police for the year lending November 30, 1924, which were considerably less in quantity than in previous years. lof the poorest and cheapest quality and indicated the class of persons from whom the seizures were made.
The International Anti-Opium As-awe, 1925 ought to witness a burning at least 0 times larger' than yestorday.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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