issue. Mr. Hanson throws a vivid ght on the organized production of that specially pernicious drug, heroin, Which far outstrips opium in its dele: terious effects on the body and soul Of its victims, Hankow seems to be the centre of a drug-distributing oranization which hag its tentacles in many places in China, The Govern: /ment's six-year suppression plan. is said to be working with success, cording to Mr. Hanson, but he rightly lays emphasis in the dangers which ice rue {rom certain aspects of registration, The chief merit of the Hankow scheme seems to lie in the separation of the drug-suppression machinery from that which is respon: sible for marketing opium, It the progressive reduction of consumption is to be brought successfully to the point of complete suppression there Must be no truckling to the interests which hitherto have profited from the trae.
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