The Archive · 1921

Staging the Opium Hunt

Peking, June 30.

It is reported that General Li Hou-chi, the Tuchun of Fukien, has expressed his readiness to welcome Admiral Liu Kung-hsung,-the newly-appointed special commis. sioner to investigate poppy cultivation in Fukien. Mr. Kao Ting-chin, the Special Commissioner for Shensi, however, is unable to leave for Shensi of present owing to the tension between Generals Yen Hsiang-wen and Chen Shoo-fan, while it is stated that General Lu Hung-tao is not at all agreeable to the visit_of Mr. Pan Ling-ko to Kansu.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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