Step te Monopoly As a preliminary step towards} the establishment of a Government! monopoly of the opium trade, National Opium Suppression Bureau, under the direct jurisdic-ition of the Ministry of Finance with branches in the various prov-tuees and districts, has been set up lby the Central Government, states the Chinese press, This marks distinct change of the Government's policy concerning the opium question. Last year, the Government contemplated the adoption of [scheme for the legalization of the sale of opium, but, on account of strong protest' from public organizations throughout the country, 1t had to be abandoned, Recently, however, the question lof a Government monopoly of the opium trade was again raised and, Jwhile the Central Government has [so far not announced any chi Opium Suppression Bureau have either been functioning in those provinces for seme "time past or that they will be set lup, shortly.
The newly-established opium suppression bureaux in the various Provinces are not designed to suppress the drug or its traffic as the name indicates, but they are established for the purpose of levying arid collecting a tax on opium According to a message "from Pengpu, Anhui, on the 'Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the opium suppression bureau has been function-ting thee since last month and has Published a series of regulations "governing the collection of opium tax. According to these, persons operating opium dens in' that city must register their dens with the Bureau and pay a. certain amount lof fees as registration charges. As to the traffic in the drug, the tax is being collected on the weight [the whole province into nine diss viers in each of which merchants were told to pay the opium tax to him ina lump sum, The mere chants, ju turn, were allowed {to farm out the tax from the opium traffickers and opium den operators. in Foochow and Amoy alone, it is, said, Mr. Yuan expects to receive $200,000 opium revenues a month, inasmuch as the opium trade of these two "places is particularly Similar bureaux have also been functioning in Kiangsu, Hunan, Chekiang, Hupeh, Kiangsi_ and lather provinees, and, according the regulations published, the planting of poppy, will be strictly prohibited, but opium produced Szechuen and Yunnan will be, foF the time being, permitted shipped to these provinces provided that the traffickers pay 30 cents for leach ounce of the drug to the foureau. Twenty per cent. of 1 Jepium revenues in. these provinces ill be used to meet financial dex ney of the province coneexned while the remaining 80 per cents will go to the Central Government, The functioning of the opium Jsappression bureaux in the various provinees has aroused strong pro ests from the merchants and pubs organizations who have denoucy led the Government's policy as being totally contrary to the Tate Party, leader's doctrines.
Tu a telegram to the National Government, the Greater Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Com urges the Government to Jabolish the opium: suppression bureaux without delay and says that the Government's new policy which was originally designed to! suppress. the drug, will result, int the opium trade being encouraged jand stimulated, The best thing for the Government to do is to prohibit strictly the planting of and other campaigns, rt Recent teat ne aero la foot cee tol ne Tank and file, rene ye ga Suprzession Bureau has also pubs|inces, such as Yunan and Szechueny basis. The Anhui Provincial Opium poppy in the Upper Yangtze prove ihey received some ammunition as well as provisions General arms and iny against Canton. He accusal curry Chisne's oticers ea that one Chian cee desert his cause {IK that 60 per cent, of the fines these two provinces suppressed, shel a set of regulations provid-land, with the planting of poppy in from Canton. seeking to establish a personal) will paid by opium smugglers will belcpium smuggling in the lower sents dictatorship, in, and he sail na the Nanking Papen warded the police or persons who]Yangtze provinces, will automaticals iving in }that the Nanking Government is dictator pure and simple, the|iiseover such' smuggling, fly military circles here.
Chiang Kwang-nei and Tsai Ting- Dr. Sun Yat-sen, we founder of) base his strength upon popularity!
Generals not true to ti idea of the late] Southerners contend, he dors not wards.
The opium suppression bureaux 88 cee: Earamcanty "Utah sisal by Mal are apparently loyal to Chen Ming-shu, their former chief, who ig now appointed Vice-Commierder of the anti-Red forces, Mr. Tang Yueh-liang, former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and brother-in-law of General Feng Yuhsiang, is here as representative of the Kuominchun, while the Shansi commanders are represented here cly Mr. Chang Hsiung-pin—Reater.
New York, June 30, Dr, Wu Chao-chu resigned after wearly four yeury of distinguished service as China's Minister" to the United States because General Chiang "Kai-shek" and the men Joyal "to him, in" the Nanking Government of China are not true' to the principles late and Dr, Sun Yat-s radio address broadens: to all parts of the United States and other countries in the western hemisphere to-night, Dr, Wa said would have been impossible for him to remain as the Nanking Government's "envoy to. Washing ton when he is entirely out. of sympathy with not only the foreign thut the domestic policies of General (Chiange Kai-shek and his follower Dr. Wu Chao-cha explained great detail the mot tions which tion of the independent fang Government at, Canton.
resigned," Dr. Wu said, "because Tobjected to having to act as the medium to bring about the shipment of war supplies to Nanking which I believed General Chiang Kai-shek and his armies would use against Mr, Sun Begone Chen, Mr. 'Tong' Shao-y and many other friends in the Government which has been estab: lished at Canton since late in strongly support the Canton Government. I resigned because 1 sould not honestly support General Ging. Kai-shek and the. men About him who are not true. to the ials or the teachings of Dr. Sun Yotsen, who founded the Kuomintang, who obtained for China her] freedom and who taught our people to aspire for Democracy.
resigned," Dr. Wu continued, "because Tat notin sympathy with either the foreign or. the domestic policies of the Nanking Government.
"The men who established and "ho "are operating the Caxton Government' desire the removal of Generar Chiang.
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