Gen. Chiang Gives Orders to Local Authorities Nanking, Nov. 27, Local authorities in opium suppress sion areas must not. increase" the faereage and production of licensed opium poppy fields under their administration just for the sake of swelling tax revenues, according to order issued to-day by Gen, Chiang Kai-shek. In distriels where further cultivation of the poppy is permitted, growers are required "frst. to apply for a special licence, and the acreage and. production are' to be decreased yearly.
poppy, is to be planted in di luiers hitherto devoid of the crop, despite the tael that they are included in the "delayed. suppression" areas, The order also reminds the authorlles that all opium crops must. be destroyed in Ninghsia, Shensi, and Yunnan by the winter of 1937, and in Suiyuan, Kansu, Kweichow, and chuen by the winter of 1989.—Central News,
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