CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 659

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to local circumstances;" and again, the result of our enquiry o destre tổ53

record our opinion................that eliminution of

the opium habit is a matter not so much for

logislation as for education by the Chinese

the.nolvos to the state of erudicating the desire for opium and tùia education, we beliove, the Chinees generally are capable of undertaking, and in many oLees ...re willing

to undertake”.

To trazonious progress made in

Chin. botmon to yourɑ 1907 "uon the

cup___) ___inst opium baun und 1917 "hen

the growth of tue poppy and the use of opium

moro practically suppressed ia u strikin

oxumple of how profess can be mide when

the fooling of the canity supporta the

ov monts policy. It is true that since

1 17 there has been a serious set izek in

the position in Ching, but this may be but

temporary and in susily „ccounted for by the

Hisorded state of the country unier whí ch

corrupt silitry and civil officials,

practically free from control by any contral

authority have oncoured the „roth of the poppy to fill usir own pockets and to pay

their private buido of retuinors.

Institutions such as the National

Red Cross Societies are peculiarly well

jualified to un lortake ochucational and

propaundiat work in their respective

countries which will bring the ngium habit

into popular diuroputs and help to prevent a

new gneration from „cquiring it. They should also be able to take practical

3upations for reformand to furnish

avicence

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