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Show OPIUM TRAFFIC China has advanced bo far In her light against opium that other crops aro being planted in placo ot popples. pop-ples. In tho Chunking district, largo areas formerly devoted to poppy cul-turo cul-turo aro now covered with a good crorp of soy beans. Tho traditional beating of swords Into plowshares wbb not n moro notablo victory for progress than this. Tho uso of tho land hns been turned from death unto un-to Hfo In tho most literal senso ot tho term. Instead of producing an Insidious poison, the fields of Chunking Chunk-ing nro bearing food; Instead of n crop peculiarly exhausting to the soil has omo ono which enriches tho soil If tho Chinese revolution had done nothing but dealt tho death blow to opium, It would bo many times wortl whllo. |