New Order Issued by General Chiang Kai-shek Nanking, Apr, 27.
In a circular order, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Director-General of Opium Suppression, has Instructed all local authorities immediately and completely to eradicate all poppy sprouts that may have sprung up in the former opium fields from seeds left there undestroyed.
'This order' was issued by the Generalissimo to-day upon receipt of reporte. that Gretta. ta "vigtense: et the opium suppression authorities, few poppy growers still engage surreptitiously In poppy growing. Their excuse, when caught, was that the poppies grow up themselves from seeds not deliberately sown but unwittingly left in the field undestroyed.
To make this excuse. impossible, Gen. Chiang kas now ordered the destruction of all confiscated poppy seeds and the uprooting of all poppy sprouts that have sprung up, Stern measures, the circular order instructs, are to be meted out to all those who sling that he-aid not have any Utne "information on the subject, News. ignore these—instruetions—Central Reproduced with permissi
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