END OF THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
THE export of Indian opium to China is uoav prohibited. The ten years limit, agreed to in 1907, expired last month. Under the treaty the British Government undertook that the Export of opium from India to China would be decreased annually by 5,100 chests, until its extinction at the end ot ten years, provided the Chinese Government carried out its arrangement for the reduction and consumption of opium in Qhina. The use of opium was? regarded by the Chinese Government as one of the most acute mor-
al and economic questions which (hey had By face as a nation. In 190(i the Chinese decided to put an end to the use- of the drug, and the agreement with Great Britain was eagerly welcomed. An edict was issued on September 20th, 1006, forbidding the consumption of opium and the cultivation of the poppy in China, and the culminating act in this plan of national reformation took place last February, when the Chinese Givernmcnt concluded an agreement with the opium com•'bination for the purchase, for medicinal purposes, of the surplus of certified stocks of opium remaining on March 31sl.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1721, 5 June 1917, Page 2
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192END OF THE OPIUM TRAFFIC. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1721, 5 June 1917, Page 2
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