The Archive · 1935

Sodden with Opium

The Generalissimo has taken many walks about the city, has conferred with all the highest officials, and he has his eyes wide open to the situation here. "The province is" opium ridden, and the populace is sodden with the drug. The question is how to rid them of the vice and the pro-Vince of the evil Tt is a big problem, and the Generalissimo, "in conversation, dicated that he fully realized that would be @ crime suddenly to order suppression without doing something to help the farmers with other crops and assist the victims to be cured of the evil. So he stated in conversa tion the other day that there was only one thing for it and that was complete revision of notions in China regarding the employment of people In productive tabour. In other word: By" the development of - natural resources and the improvement of farming.

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