A CORRECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 12626, 4 October 1905, Page 8

A CORRECTION.

TO ISB JUHTUU-. gir,—l am sorry to haveT» trouble yon again, but two or three errors as to the facts have crept into the report supplied you of what I said at South Dtmedin re the opium, traffic on Sunday. These are to serious that they must be corrected. I am made to say that China had prohibited the use of opium, and that there was only one .province where the opium trade was nowcarried on openly. What I did say was that when China had prohibition of opnun the nation was prosperous, and-bad a good, store of grain, etc Since this prohibition -was removed (at tbe point of the British bayonet) many of the provinces are on the verge of starvation, because there is no store of corn. I did not say that 100 out of each 107 folks in China were addicted to opium smoking. What I said was that 80 per cent, of the

men and4o percent, of the women in many of the provinces wore so addicted, and that in one case 100 out of 107 adjoining fields were given 'up to the frrowtb of t*>" "-" — — 100 to feed vine, 7to feed men.—l am, etc, G. Bbuxabo Nichoixs.