The energetic governor of Shangtung, Gen. Han Fuchu, is tackling the problem with a ferocity thet bids fair to achieve success. He has grim determination and an implacable hatred of the whole sordid business, which make him utterly ruthless. The habits of officials high and low are subjected to a close supervision and no mercy is shown to drug addicts. As for the people, all heads of villages are ordered to report at once all cases of opium-smoking or drug taking to the hsien magistrate and if, subsequently, any drug victims are discovered, these responsible worthies are instantly executed.
As I write news comes in a Chinese newspaper of a petition addressed by Christians in central China to Gen. Chiang K'atshek, imploring him to take immediate' and drastic measures to deal with the drug traffic fu the Yangtze valley, where it has Generalissimo can make any impression on this sprewing octopus, whose tentacles extend in direction, sucking the lifeblood of the nation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.