Amoy, Feb. 13.
The forcible destruction of a field of opium poppy in the district of Chaoan, southern Fukien, near the Fukien-Kwangtung border, resulted in-an aimed lath and bloodshed between units of the 80th Division, Under Lieut-Gen, Chen Chi, and the peasants, Discovering that poppies, were being grown at Meitu, a village in Chacen, @ detack..ent of soldiers of the 478th Regiment, attached to the '80th Division, was despatched to destroy them. The peasants resisted and, fu the clash which ensued. thirty peasants were killed—Kuo Min.
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