The same afternoon information was sent to the opium department that a certain foreign subject would bbe shipping opium to Changchow by small boat lying off the Bund. The water police, representatives of the opium "¢epertment, examined the courge loaded on the vessel and 970 discovered, of opium, worth $2,000, were
The chiot assistant of the Opium Control OMlce in Foochow, a. few days, ago, stated while here "on a visit, that the Provincial opium ministration would adhere strictly. the Government plan of abolishing the: use of the" drug within three years, That people misunderstood the polley of the Government in farming its sale to others and s0 creating a monopoly. Its sale was: necessary to the Government for Fevenue, It was necessary to control and it was necessary to gradually. reduce ils sale, Those who used it habitually must be registered, no new smokers would be allowed on the register, and so the practice ould be arbaually extinguished with ime.
Those who planted the poppy must also register and must pay. revenue, but many planters had failed to do #0, Merchants, too, with an eye to) big profits secretly sold the " drug, others imported it from abroad and juggled it in. These were usually und (0 be foreign -residents, Quite recently the Opium Control Associ tion had discovered that a huge ganization had been brought into existence to deal only with this drug.
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