MILITARY AND OPIUM-GROWERS
PITCHED BATTLE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received April 4, 10 a.m.) PEKIN, 30th April. A pitched battle between the military and opium-growers took place in tbV Shansi Province, in consequence of the Chinese Government attempting to uproot poppies. Sixty persons were killed, and many wounded. In a general report upon the opium question in China, published as a Parliamentary paper, Sir Alexander Hosie says it is doubtful whether any question has ever stirred the Chinese Empire so profoundly as that of opium suppression. It affects all classes ; Imperial decrees, proclamations, and the native press have carried the fiat throughout the length and breadth of the land ; and public opinion, backed by a young but growing patriotism, is gradually but surely branding opium smoking \as an evil that must be eradicated. Sir Alexander says that the sincerity of the Government in its endeavour to eradicate the opium evil within ten years from th# date of the Imperial decree (September, 1906), is beyong question.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 78, 4 April 1910, Page 7
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