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Show TAKEfoijr AND SHOT Chinese Governor Metes' Out Death Punishment to Opium Smoker Shanghai Inn. 9 Death as 8 punishment pun-ishment for opium Hmoking was meted met-ed out today to a woman of this cltj who persisted In the iib of Ihe drug tle)lie the stringent manifesto ip- sce,i by the government on Christmas dm. prohibiting the people from ln-i ln-i dulglng In ihe habit. By order of the governor of the! province the woman was taken to a! public place Hnd executed by shoot-; :ing in the presence of a large crowd ol spectators The manifesto by the !hlne9f gov. ernment expressed the desire for the suppression of evil In order to bave the people from a life or degradation, I but at the sauif time volceclk the Tear I ihat although the government was in earnest the people trould 1 ry to ..ide I the la w Collapse of Opium Trade. The probable collapse of the opium I trade was foreshadowed some tune1 m(t when it was found that Indian opium to the aliie of $g0,0QQ,000 was BiacKea in tnousenas of chests in Shanghai and Hong Kong warehouses I without finding bnvcrs After the manifesto was Issued by the government govern-ment it was found virtually impossible impossi-ble to buy or sell opium in the coast provinces or the Yang-Tse provinces and It was known that the authorities had been ordered from Peking to enforce th jirohbilory laws Today's execution, however, was the first, in - j stance in which they have been pul into full effect. |