This year the Association will carry on the work as planned in the Five Year Programme. The main effort will be to secure the necessary funds and force to put through the whole programme. Mr. Chung urged all friends present to pledge their best efforts to. strengthen this people's movement, The Chairman then called upon} Mr. Tong i, who gave an interesting account of the Anti-Opium work he did during the Empress Dowager's regime. He stated clearly that, if the Was to accomplish anything, it must be! fearless in its attack in any quarter, without regard to saving face, The Association should be fully prepaved to meet the implications of work Wellington Koo related ce az the League of Nations grappling with the opium problem, which ix of special interest] to China both internally and intersonally. He urged that China should stand for the limitation of opium production to medicinal and scientific needs. China in the past had not been able to get adequate statistics to verify the reports the League of Nations of amounts produced in China. The Anti-Opium Association should do its best to secure these statistics from respon-lo sources in China, both for the help of the Chinese government in knowing the extent of the problem and for the information of the world, Tackle Shanghai Smugglers Dr. Huang Yen-pei reported some!
concerning the problem in which he visited recently—most difficult problem 'Yen Shih-shan, the model Tuchun," being to stop th smuggling of opium from naig' bouring provinces. Plans for ousting him from the province are the work of political and military enemies who do, not like his firm dealing with opium matters, Dr. Huang Yen-pei thought the Anti-Opiun: work for the whole of China too vast for the Association to under Why not tackle Shanghi problem here being an open seer: snd make this " clean community, ree of opium?
'Mr. Hsia Chi-feng mentioned the fact that last year China had not jed delegates to sit with the Advisory Council on Opium of the League of Nations. This couneit will' meet again in the autumn. No matter how difficult the problem is, China must not give up the fight. The wext International Conference on Opium will meet in 1929
The time pass. very rapidly. The people's delegate, Mr. T. Koo, made a strong impression on the last conference. The delegates of different nations expressed great confidence in this people's movement. The coming five years is a most important time for the Assomn to mobilize the best men in China for the fight against poppy planting within her own borders and s0 arouse the conscience of the nations to give China the assistant: she is entitled to in trying prevent the dumping of the foreign output into this land, After the addresses the meeting, spent some time in discussing the best way to strengthen the movement. There was a general express sion of determination to wage' relentless warfare until China is freed of opium.
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