Commissioner's Fine Work From Out Own Correspondent, Tsinan, Feb. 6, It has long been common know: ledge that there is a widespread sale of various forms of opium and morphia in Tsinan. The recently appointed Commissioner of Police, Chin Yen-nien, has signalized his first days of office with vigorous anti-opium action, In this con. nexion he has arrested some 50 Chinese and despatched six Russians and one Turk under arrest Tientsin.
On Friday, February 3, Commissioner Chin gave a. public ex: hibition of drugs confiscated sin his accession to office. These include 500,000 opium pills mostly of Japanese make, 60 packages of i-opium pills bought. from ikkaikochi, a Japanese firm in Tsinan, 42 boyes of Chinese-made anti-opium pills, 111 bottles of strychnine from London, 16 ounces of morphine muriate powder from J. D. Waik & Ca., London, 8.W., 50 ounces. of dacolylmorphine hydrochloride powder from Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten and Ca., Philadelphia, and several complete outfits for making opium pills.
All unite in warmly congratulat-Civil Governor, Ch'i Ying-kwang, upon his determined onslaught against this dreadful curse. That he has been so successful is no doubt due to the support of the Civil Governor, Ch'i Ying-kwang, who appointed the new Police Commissioner a. month ago. The authorities are fighting with power. ful and corrupt vested interests it is to be hoped that they will use their utmost strength and fullest resources until they have extirpate ed the sale of all illicit drugs.
It is further to be noted that this peril to China cannot be finally dealt with until the manufacture and distribution of these drugs is internationally controlled.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.