The telegram appearing elsewhere reporting the manner in which opium flows into Kwangsi from Yunnan adds considerable Point to a leading article dealing with the drug traffic which appear-fed in these columns so short " whic ago as November 18. Stories of the movement of large quantities of the frog in the North are being reinforced by this news from the south, fund when a caravan of 1,000 beasts transports no lest an amount tha tons on. one trip alone, itis Decmissile to ask how much of Poppy juice is being' prepa other parts of China as prolific in production as io Wannah, such stent provinces as "Yunnan, Szechuen and Charhar cannot be Inid at the door of the Nanking Government, for, with all the. wil in the world, they cannot oblige provincial officials. to surrender Inerative a source of income as the
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