THE OPIUM POPPY
RATHER DRASTIC ABOLITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.- Copyright}. PEKIN, May 18. Shanghai newspapers report that the local gentry and farmers at Chenchauting, in western Hunan, resenting the troops uprooting the poppy crop, assembled In the temple to discuss the matter, whereupon the troops set fire to the building, and sixty-seven were incinerated.
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Southland Times, Issue 17348, 20 May 1913, Page 5
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54THE OPIUM POPPY Southland Times, Issue 17348, 20 May 1913, Page 5
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