"Opium Suppression Day" Is Observed in Peiping Peiping, June 3.
Twenty-two thousand. ounces of opium, heroin and other drugs, seized by the police during the past year, were destroyed in a huge bonfire in the centre of the drill ground in the city by the fire brigade this morning. The occasion commemorated the at niversary of the burning of opium by Mr. Lin Cheh-hsu, Viceroy of Kwangtung Province, in Canton Ju 1639.
'A large number of opium pipes and amps, Chinese and foreign playing cards, mahjong pieces and other ambling instruments were also committed to the flames, og well og some double-bottomed boxes" and printing cylinders used to smuggle drugs, 'OMicials of the District Court super~ vised the burning which was attended by representatives of civie bodies and large gathering of the public—Route
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