Present Policy. for Extermination: Capitalist "Rings"
The long heralded week's campaign against opium was launched on Monday, Sixteen provinces and 200 large cities will join, and as the campaign gains impetus, with publicity, the formation of clubs and urban associations, and the denunciation of the old corrupt methods, will endeavour to awaken he national conscience to the evil. In the majority of places throughout the country the big effort is being ce-ordinated, but in some cities local auditions have necessitated changes the original plans and the cat paign will be inaugurated in them us circumstances permit, Monday being the "customary meeting day for all Kuomintang bodies and associations in Shanghai, it saw the subject of opium and the suppression of narcotics Drought to the fore in all these weekly discussions. The "Shun Pao, "sin Wan Pao," and other prominent dailies came out with special anti-opium—supplements, in which the government's policy towards the evil and the foal of endeavour being set before the nation were dwelt upon. In the afternoon there was a large gathering of Chinese journalists and members of news agencies in Dinty Moore's' Cafe in Szechuen Road, where Mr, K. T. Chung, secretary fof the Anti-Opium Association of China, delivered an address, and between 4 and pam. General Chang Chih-chiang, chairman of the Government' Council for the Suppression of Opium, spoke over tthe radio,
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