YUAN SHIH-KAI AND OPIUM.
Yuan Shi-Kai, Provisional President of the Republic of Ghina, declares. — "Most important to the present generation of my people in the complete extermination of opium and the opium .habit. China has been dying from fins curse fotr more than half a cen- l tury—fifty-nine years, to be exact. Her people, overcome by thia vile drug, have been half asleep, and have not known that they and their country were dying. Years ago the nation .appealed for outside aid in its suppression, and the wdrld knows what aid was rendered. The drug was forced upon us more than before. For nearly sixty years it has stood aB a great crime of humanity. But we will stop it and free the land of the
devouring scourge. Our National Assembly has' already passed many laws regarding it, and these laws will be enforced. We are establishing an army and that army will fight.opium and opium smugglers on all the frontiers of laud and sea, opium dealers and sub-dealers in all the cities and towns, and opium users everywhere."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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179YUAN SHIH-KAI AND OPIUM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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