CHINESE OPIUM
A GREAT INCREASE IN CROPS:
PEKIN, January 28
Reports from numerous districts show a very great increase in opium crops.
On January Bth it was announced that immediately the first Chinese Parliament meets in April a measure will be pronosed disfranchising districts growing opium. Growers are to be punished by death. On the same date, in the House of Commons, the Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Foreign Office, Mr P. JD. Acland, in reply to a question, said it was not intended to terminate the opium agreement of 1911. The opium agreement of 1911 provided that ‘‘the export of opium from India to China shall cease in less than seven years if clear proof is given to the satisfaction of the British Minister at Pekin of the complete absence of native opium in China/' It was agreed that, pending the complete disappearance of poppy cultivation in the Chinese Empire, Indian opium shall not be conveyed into any Erovince (the ports of Canton and Shaugai excepted) which may have ceased to cultivate or import the native product.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 8
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177CHINESE OPIUM New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 8
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