Three months azo Taotai Wuang Chia-t'aog, Director-in-Chief of Telegraphs, was directed by the Ministry of Posts and Communications to find out whether any of his subordinates throughout the whole Telegraph Administration were victims of the opium habit; and if so, to give such persons three months to get rid of it. This period has now expired and yesterday telegraphic dispatch arrived from Peking asking whether the aforesaid victims had got rid of their The penalty of failure to do s0. we understand, is summary dismissal, We also learn that the Imperial Commissioners of opium prohibition in Peking have two of one in Shansi, and the other in the Yangtze provinces, as to the extort to which the anti-opium campaign has been carried. out by the authorities of those provinces.
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