Reports from Kongmoon early this sock include a story that General Hsu Chung-chi of the Red Army in Canton has succeeded in raising more than $100,000 by first granting: 8 permit to a military subordinate to import opium and then doing away with the opium altogether by sinking the vessel on which the opium was imported. Tt appears that Brigadier Yang Kam-lung of the 2nd Brigade stationed at Kongmoon recently obtained a permit from General Hist. 10 import about 10,000 taels of opium from Kuangehowwan. Upon the Army Transport Shin On returning with the goods near Kongmoon, the Gunboat Fei Ying, presumably by instructions of General Hsu, attacked the Shin On, killing more than 40 of the crew of the smuggling vessel and sinking her, after capturit everything worth having from the vessel.
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