Show FIGHTING HINA IS Government GO Seek Seek- to Reduce Uio tl I Ic Country's O Product China has just revised 1 and amI consolidated hor lion native opium taxation II It I amounts to 15 Peking a about GG 66 cents a pound oh oil oi crude cruce opium antI and double that amount on the prepared artcle article the time growers grower's tax being bc- bc In ing abolished According to reports from Pel Peking ln the government is 18 anxious to curtail the use of or opium hut but Is dependent for Cor revenue to the of more than a year on time the duties cutes paid on Imported opium She can cnn not In iii Inthe the tho present state of oC her hem national finances finan finan- the disappearance ails dis ces witness winess without concern appearance of or such an Important branch of or revenue V The Imports of or opium amount to 3 tons the to lo the extent ex cx- x- x native article Is produced tent of or tons Moreover there Is Isa Isn isa a n gr great at development In tIme the use uso of morphia inot The Jam Jamo o ship shill to China large quantities of oC cheap hypodermic syringes syringe The better heter Chinese Clinest are reported to lo have a strong feeling against tho the en enormous enormous en- en rn- rn extension of Iho limo growth of or orthe the poppy throughout the empire A Peking king correspondent of the London Times indicates that China will wi ask India to consent to an annual reduction tion tinis ton in the lime Import of ci opium to China which would have havo the effect of ot extinguishing ex ex- the thc trade in ten years cars an anI and andas as an evidence c of oC good faith will wi 1 issue lue an on Imperial edict condemning tho the use I of opium and forbidding the employ i ment mont In the government service of qC any opium ealer eater and antI orLlO an aim annual I reduction in II 1 poppy P I cultivation leading I t to Its Us extinction In t ten len n year |