Peking, Nov. 23.—The Government has decided to destroy the remaining stocks of opium in Shanghai in deference to Anglo-American representations. Three hundred chests have been sold, and 1,200 will be burned in presence of the allied representatives, the Government making a virtue of necessity.
America to the rescue! It must have been a close squeak for poor old China.
APPENDIX II
From the "New York Medical Record," October 12, 1918:
THE ORIGIN OF THE SO-CALLED "SPANISH INFLUENZA"
By James Joseph King, A.B., M.D.
NEW YORK
CAPTAIN MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY