FIGHT AGAINST OPIUM
The great fight that is being made in the East against opium was described by Mrs. F. H. Rayward, who, with her husband, the superintendent of the Newcastle Central Mission, Australia, returned to her home recently after a trip through the Orient. Mrs. Rayward, who visited the opium clinic at Singapore, says that these clinics have been established to cure opium addicts, and throughout the East efforts are uow being made to prevent the drug from being used further. “The American mission teachers are carrying on fine work among the children, and are helping them to grow up into good citizens.” said Mrs, Rayward. “Children are taken into the schools when they are only tiny tots The lessons are taught in English, and they soon learn the language.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 22
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