THE OPIUM EVIL.
AN EXPERIMENT. Received March 23, 9.28 p.m. PEKIN, March 23. An announcement has been made here that Britain has agreed to an experimental decrease in the importation of opium for a period of three years in order to see whether the cultivation of poppy and the number of opium smokers would be lest>ened, and the importation in that case decreased annually. A decree, issued at Pekin, orders further measures to deal with the evil.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 24 March 1908, Page 5
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77THE OPIUM EVIL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 24 March 1908, Page 5
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