Requires Guarantees from All Public Funetionaries Nanking, Apr, 9.
The thorough suppression of the opium evil among civil servants, through rigid inspection, is enjoined by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, in a circular order to the Provincial and Municipal Governments. In the course of it, he states:
"At the present juncture, when the Government is sirietly enforcing opium-suppression, those ofcials who Jare still addicts should immediately wake to their mistake, and. break' the reprehensible habit. However, lest opium should be secretly taken, strict inspection should be condueted, in conformity with the policy (of opium-suppression.
"Public functionaries who do not] smoke opium or take other narcotics should sign written pledges of their good faith, and undergo a general Inspection, which should be conduct ted by their superior officials. Those who Used to smoke opium, but who Have bens coped of fe ait shoal have guarantees of good conduct furnished by. their superior officials, and submitted to the highest officials concerned for approval—Kuo Min.
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