This local struggle in Jenshow still continues and one can but. hope that the people will win. Tt would be worth while if the National Anti-opium Society would have a clipping bureau and furnish clippings to Mr. Chu, and other diplomats abroad, from the Chinese: public business. The peace and quiet of his three years of office have been largely due to his watehfulness and many regret his leaving us is successor is, Colonel Oh'eng. wickuang who has for time been in" ¢ommand of the 20th regiment of General Cheng Hong-fan's troops in this city. He will continue to my his former office, thus drawing two While he is announced magistrate" the general impression is that he will hold the office for some time. He has a good reputation, and, though a young man, has already held civil office.
1 The Opium Question and foreign papers in China about the forcing of the people to plant opium and their protests anent the same. Some have that Mr. Chu is really igno the situation in Ching, so. [statements are really not malicious mis-representations. If he is. not better informed he will continue along his erroneous way, only being disturbed occasionally" by some] consul of other well informed person, who, goaded past for-' bearance, forgets diplomacy and spills the beans, which is a very naughty thing to do in such. circle
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