The Archive · 1937

Strict Enforcement of Drug Law Demanded

Nanking, Mar. 4, General Chiang Kal-spok to-day issued an identical order to all pro vineial and municipal governments requiring that severe punishment be meted out to any offlial who falls to enforce the anti-opium and anti-drug laws of the Central Government, The Generalissimo exhorted the anti-opium workers to redouble their efforts in weeding out this evil, He stated that unless this evil can be brought to an early eradication provided for in the "Government's opium-suppression programme, fv will stain the dignity of the Chinese poople as a race—Central Nows,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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