To the Editor of the "Nonri-Ciiwa Darcy News."
Sm—May through the medium of your esteemed columns call the attention of the general public in general and the National Anti Opium Commission in particular to the fact that opium continues to be officially transported from place to place and openly sold in the province of Anhui?
In the majority of the cities, opium-smoking dens, plainly marked by a sign-board, are to be seen doing good business without inter ference from the police or the newly established Anti-Opium Inspection Bureau (Ching Yien Chieh Chia So), which, by the way, takes, the place of the Opium Prohibition Bureau, under whose regime the sale and smoking of opium. were legal. In fact the very same persons, who ran the Opium Prohibition, Bureau in Northern Anhui, are now in charge of the Anti-Opium In-
Furthermore, tens of thousands of ounces of the drug is being carted from northern Anhui overland via Hotel to Wuhu, where it is shipped secretly into' Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces. This is done not without the knowledge and of the said Anti-Opivm Inspection Bureau which collects 30 cents for every ounce of opium sold the province, and 50 cents per ounce i€ it is to be shipped to the neighbouring provinces. It is, difficult to understand how the Anti-Opium Inspection Bureau of Anhui could openly sanction, If not altogether encourage, the shipping of opium to other provinces where the possession of itis a serious crime, Tt is still more dimeutt. to understand why the—Anti-Opium Committee of the Central Govern ment at Nanking has not lifted a finger to stop such an obvious evil. It is time that. provincial officials, who disregard the orders of the Central Government in order to. fil their own pockets are' severely dealt with, Thanking you for your valuable space, Tam, te Shanghai ov. 6, 1928,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.