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XII. OPIUM.

86. Under the dictatorship of Yuan Shih-kai the opium problem was showing signs of permanent extinction. With the present separation of power from responsi bility in China, it is rapidly becoming as serious and in many ways more complicated than in any period of Chinese history. The present recrudescence of cultivation and consumption appear to be the outcome partly of Chinese insincerity and partly of

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