Peking's Commissioner for Investigation Reports a General Improvement Peking, Jan. 5.
Mr. Wang Tah-shen, Special Commissioner to investigate poppy cultivation in Fukien Province on the 80th ultimo telegraphed to the President, the Premier and the Minister of the Interior, saying:
"As ready reported in my telegram of the 6th instant I have carried out a thorough investigation of poppy cultivation in the hsiens of Chinkiang, Nanan, Yung-chun and Anhsi. Later on I went to Hueian, thence to Hsianyu and then to Putien. I found that at Hueian and Hsianyu last month poppy cultivation had been in progress in some localities at a distance from the area under the control of the Magistrate. This cultivation was carried on by local bandits. T had requested the Civil Governor to stamp out this growth and he had done so. There was no trace of cultivation to be seen anywhere 1 went.
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