As an illustration of the' strictness with which opium is suppressed among officials, H.E. Chen Kuei-lung, the enlightened Viceroy of the Hukuang (Hupeh and Hunan) provinces, has appointed eighteen subordinates, who are natives of the eighteen different provinces, to ascertain what expectant officials smokeopinm among thei ropes tive fellow-provincials. The are made to understand that, T th they seck to curry favour with their respective fellow-provincials who have the opium-smoking habit by Fa of reporting them to the Viceregal Yamen, they themselves will be dismissed from the public service and punished.
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