Word: opiumeators
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From northeast Yunnan a missionary reported that in his district 98% of the men smoked opium, 40% of the women. Two-thousand-horse opium caravans "frequently" (according to another missionary) trek north from the "Opium Capital" in Szechwan, the city of Chungking which boasts 100 morphine factories, 150 opium shops and 4,000 dens?all licensed, legal...
...Opium. Finance Minister T. V. Soong cheerfully declared last week that China will soon have "a new and realistic opium policy...
Stimulus for this has been provided by the opium exposé of the U. S.-owned Shanghai Evening Post which mailed out questionnaires, got back answers from 170 Christian missionaries in more than 18 provinces...
According to the missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...