Opium Smokers Must Now Register Voluntary registration of opium smokers by the addicts themselves who live in the Chinese territory in Shanghai was closed yesterday and registration under official supervision follows, it is announced in the "Sin Shun Pao." It is stated that registration is a step towards opium suppression, which work is being done by the Bureau of Public Safety.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 opium smokers have so far registered with the Bureau voluntarily, and they have been given permits, Now the Bureau has been ordered to compel opium addicts to register and to make careful investigations before doing so. Those who refuse to register will be punished, it is stated.
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