The Archive · 1935

To Clear Szechuen of Opium

Poppy Cultivation Eliminati in Five Years Chengtu, Out. 2 In accordance with the instructions of Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, and under hhis personal direction, the Szechuen provincial government has started a paign against the production trafficking. and smoking of opium. The growing of poppy, which hitherto has been a source of revenue in this province, according to the present plans Ig to be completely eliminated in five years.

"To prove to the populace that the Generalissimo means business, Shen Wen-ying, who recently was' taken into custody by special police force, on charges of dealing in narcotics. was executed yesterday at Pahsien by order of the Generalissimo's Headquarters—Central News.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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