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China’s Opium Monopoly

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 44.

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China’s Opium Monopoly

AN opium monopoly is imminent in China. A German firm located at Shanghai has offered to pay the government the enormous sum of $38,000,000 a year for the privilege of handling this drug exclusively. Such a proposition clearly shows the illegal profits realized from the sale of opium, as well as its frightfully-growing use among the orientals.