With a view to ensuring that no poppy planting will take place next year, secret agents instead of official Inspectors are to be despatched to report on the result of the efforts towards opium suppression under taken by provincial 'These agents raph areas where poppies are being cultivated and their' investigations will be reported to the Central Gov-
To ensure that suppression me [sures are carried out, each village hamlet must furnish @ guarantee that opium will be cultivated in its precincts. This pledge will be official~ ly recorded, and when it is found to have been broken severe punishments, according to military law, will be meted out to the guilty persons. No leniency will be shown.
Where it can be shown that the military authorities are conniving at opium cultivation, military headquar {ers are to be immediately informs when appropriate action wil
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