Nanking, June 3. pletely in the provinces Poppy cultivation has been com-
Jot Honan, Hupeh, Anhwei, " Kiangs Kiangsu, Chekiang, and Fukien, white the provinces of Shensi and Kansu have resorted to schemes for the Jannual reduction of cultivation which have achieved results, declared Dr.
Hong Liu, chairman of the Né tional Opium "Suppression Commission, in an address here on the Joceasion of the National Anti-opium Day.
Measures aiming at the prohibition of opium, he stated, will henceforth be formulated by the newly-appointed Directoc-General for Opium Suppression, General Chiang Kai-shek, In accordance with a recent decision of "the Central Potitieal Council, which at the same time decreed the
/Suppression Commission in the intergbelition of the National," Opium est of unification.
Dr, Liu said in part: "We gather here to-day to commemorate the occasion of opium burning 98 years ago in Canton by Viceroy Lin Tse-}hsu, our eminent leader of opium suppression, and I feel greatly honoured by the presence of High offlals of the Government and the representatives of various organiza-tons.
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