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REGL 24 JAN 07.
Proposal, in ten articles, for carrying out the pro-
hibition of opium now reverently submitted to the
Throne.
Article 1. To restrict the cultivation of the
poppy in order to remove the root of the evil.
The effect of poppy cultivation on the agricul-
tural interests of the Country have been disastrous.
Trhoughout China, the chief sources of opium produc-
tion are the Provinces of Szech'uan, Shensi and Kansu
Yunnan and Kueichou, Shansi, Kiangsu and Anhui, but
in the remaining provinces it may be said generally
that there is hardly a place from which it is absent.
The term of ten years has now been fixed for the com-
plete prohibition of its use. It is therefore neces-
sary first to limit its cultivation, in order that
the complete prohibition of its consumption may be
successfully carried out and with this end in view
all Governors -General and Governors of Provinces
3.