Kiangchow, Nov. 27.
The sale of opium is, I am told, licensed for three months in Shansi and people are flocking over the river to patronize both licensed and unlicensed retailers. In connexion with opium, circulars have been received here from a society proposing out of pure philanthropy to buy up opium for wholesale destruction.
Your correspondent is amazed 10 know that any decent Chinese, could lend himself to a scheme of this kind at a time like the pre-of the quantities of real and spurious material at present available to supply demand, it would be indeed difficult to con-more wanton misuse of pub-
That the supply has been cut off at the fountain head by prohibition of the cultivation of poppy is true, and the present increasing prices are doing much to reduce the use of the dr But wherever an official can be induced to connive, there are farmers ready to grow, and wholesale orders for foreigners' burning exhibitions ought not to be added to the already existing inducement to break the laws of the Republic.
Things generally are quiet in Shani, but there is a readiness to speak of political grievances, which was formerly unknown amongst these law-abiding and long suffering people. Tsingtao has been retaken by the Germans. This is the locat rumour here.
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