Much, however, has happened in China in the last two years. Owing to the trouble in the country the cultivation of the poppy has undoubtedly increased on a large scale, and even the British authorities' in Shanghai—where, presumably, opposition to smug-if effective at all anywhere, can be "made effective owing to Customs aetivity—are in despair owing to the magnitude of their task, Indeed, the current issue of, the "North-China Herald" now tofore me remarks that with the 'Municipal Council on the one hand trying to' stop smuggling within its confines, while the Chinese Government outside continues cheerfully to grow opium, the time has come when. patience' is exhausted. The "Herald" hesitates to express any
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