At Changteh and throughout the west of the province, opium shops have sprung up like the trees in a wood. The business is openly carried on. Opium consumed and the profits divided. The smoke goes up in clouds, but no official takes any note of the matter.
In Changsha, the seat of the provincial executive government, things are not so apparent as at Changteh on the actual surface. But directly you go beneath the surface, you find no one is afraid. Again we give instances, (1) On September 22 all the newspapers in the city, reported the false use of the name of an American firm by an opium and gamb.- issued a ling business. The Consul brought large character proclamation star-|+he matter to the notice of ihe jug that in accordance with the officials, who instructed the police
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