YUAN SHI-KAI AND OPIUM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 13 September 1913, Page 4

YUAN SHI-KAI AND OPIUM.

Yuan Shi-Kai, Provisional President' of the Republic of China, declares:— “Most important to the present generation of my people is the complete extermination of opium and the opiun habit. China, has been dying fron this curse for more than half a con tury—fifty-nine years, to he exact Her people, overcome by this vih drug, have been half asleep, and hav< not known that they and their conn try were dying. Years hgo the ,na tion appealed for outside aid in_ it 1 suppression, and the world know■ what aid was rendered. The dm;, was forced upon ns more than before For nearly sixty years it has stood a: a great crime of humanity. But w> will stop it and free'the land of tin , devouring scourge. Our Nations Assembly has already passed man, laws regarding it. and these laws wi he enforced. We are establishing a ’ army and that army will fight opim and opium-smugglers on all the fror ’ tiers of land and sea, opium dealei and sub-dealers in all the cities an towns, and opium users everywhere.