Show OPIUM WORTH MANY MILLIONS TS WILL BE BURNED BURr BY CHINESE TESE Washington Nov o Fourteen 20 Fourteen O million dollars' dollars worth of oC opium purchased by the Chinese e government government government govern govern- ment from foreign opium merchants a at Shan Shanghai hal Is to be destroyed according to a cablegram ram received today toda from Pekin b by tho the Chinese I Jc legation c at I 0 H. H The opium which Is racked tacked In l 1200 OO chests will be burned at Shanghai under a mandate soon to be Issued by the tho president of or orthe the Chinese government o the dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch said Foreign re residents of oC Shanghai will be bo Invited to wit wit- this large stock remaining In Because of tho the strict prohibition prohibition prohibition tion b by China against shipping any opium into the interior pro provinces inces laces said salt the legations legation's ment the merchants had not been able to dispose of oC it In view of the possible menice from this large lare stock remaining In Inthe inthe the tho hands of ot unscrupulous unscrupulous' foreign dealers to the welfare of or orthe the Chinese people who ho had heroIcally heroically hero hero- leaB got gut rid of oC the opium habit In less than a decade the Chinese Chi Chi- nose nese government so some time lime nobou ago no bou bought ht It with a view to keeping control over o it and using using- It gradually grad grad- for Cor medicinal purposes but public opinion m In n China unanimously unanimously unanimously demanded Its destruction so 50 as ns to 10 do owa away with the tho evil once for tor all aiL |