'The report corroborates a known fact, namely, that the phia traffic' radiates along certain well-known railways, In the ect and south of Shansi morphiapillx are used in preference to opium, whilst in the north opium is almost exclusively used. The present" port reveals an alarming increase in the use of morphia pills when ea trosted with previous years. This -|ix absolutely destructive, until morphia production in foreign countries is reduced to medical limits it would be far better to allow the people to use opium. Opium-smokix ix easily detected by its sickly]
lour which fills the house and neighbourhood, but morphia pill owing is not detectable and before represents the—most! secretive from of narcotism.
In the three sect rus representing process of ronniing up these de Hinquemts reflects creat 1 vlministration eae Pan-sun, son of the Sheng Kumg-pao, has Pointed Commis-ioner of Foreign Affairs and Superintendent of Customs at Soochow and Me. Jui Shi iching has been given similar post at Nanking by a Peking mandate.
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