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CHINA TRADE.
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Mr. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received September 20.)
Peking, September 20, 1906. (No. 173.) (Telegraphic.) P.
THE framing of measures for the strict prohibition of the cultivation and consumption of opium has been ordered by a Decree published to-day, which commands that within a period of ten years the complete eradication of the evils arising from native and foreign opium shall be effected.
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