Peking, Nov. 19.
Charges that irrigated land in the province "of Shensi has' been used for the purpose of growing! opium were strongly refuted by David "A. Brown, 'Chairman of China Bnine Melef, US.Ae fore his departure' from Peking for Shanghai.
Mr, Brown, in the course of a signed statement issued on the eve of his departure, declared that he made a special point of investigating these charges during his visit 49 the province of Shensi and the Wei Pei irrigation project, which is entirely responsible for the irri ion of the land in question, When the charges were made, Mr, Brown said, either the Wel" Po main canal "nor the laterals had
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