Peking, April 14.
The Yunnan Government last year, according to information received by the Internationa] Anti-Opium Association, printed. and issued a pamphlet, entitled "Yunnan Opium Prohibition," which contained a so-called prohibition system, imposing a tax of $2 a mow on land used: for the cultivation of poppy. Ninety per cent. of this tax had to be forwarded to the provincial treasury, three per cent. handed to the local Magistrate, and seven per cent. retained by the collector., It is not yet known whether the fall of General Tang Chi-yao brought an end to this
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