Gen. Chiang Encouraged by Present Results Hankow, Mar.
course of an address, yesterday, on.
Gen. Chiang, Kai-shek, in the opium suppression, asserted that' the six-year plan of the Provisional Headquarters at Nanchang remains the only feasible and effective method for the complete eradication of the evil. In the one year since its enforcement, heartening results had been Achieved in the provinces of Honan, Hupeh, and Anhwei. Tu Kiangst and Chekiang no signs of the opium poppy are now seen. In Kiangsu also, active efforts have been made, par: ticularly against opium-smoking.
It 4s a curious point, that notwithstanding the fact that 'Urga lies very, far from the frontiers of China and) Manchuria, tie feeling in the town' ig nervous and heavy. Instead of ithusissm and high spirits there is feeling that some catastrophe wilt shortly happen. It is possible that this depressed feeling is explained by the unfavourable situation Mongolia, there being a certain faction of the population who are strongly, anti-Soviet, In the next five years, he said, efforts must be redoubled, with view to securing nation-wide results and bringing about the total suppression of the sale, transportation, manufacture, and smoking of opium throughout the country—Kuo Min CHANGCHUN CELEBRATES,
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