While official circles were reticent, the leading Chinese dailies here reported yesterday that the First Special District Court and its®high court in the Settlement will today publicly burn the opium and opium-smoking pipes confiscated from criminals in Order to observe the Opium Suppression Day which falls today.
Today is the anniversary of the burning of opium near Canton by Viceroy Ling Chieh-shu more than 100 years ago, which later led to the Opium War. The way has been marked out by the Chinese authorities at Chungking as Opium Suppression Day and during the pre-war days commemoration meetings were held by opium-suppression officials. Opium was then burned publicly by the courts here, No such meetings will be held here today owing to' changed situation. The Chinese press yesterday expressed disappointment over the opium situation in Shanghai since the change of the situation, while at the same time expressing gratitude for the opium-suppression efforts made by authorities of both foreign areas here. "Passively" to boycott opium. it was stated, Chungking had enforced new opium-suppression regulations in Shanghai courts.
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