Return to Peking of Govt. vestigator in Local Opium Trafficking A large consignment of opium was landed at Woosung on Monday hight and immediately removed to, 'a "certain foreign built house" in Paoshan Road. Whether this is the notorious place known as "The 'Wheel, sed down by' order of the Chinese authorities a few years ago, or not we have een unable to ascertain.
"At a meeting of the National Anti-Opium Association on Thursday. it-was unanimously decided to send delegates to Nanking to discuss the situation with the authorities there and to demand the immediate suppression of the evil. A further ig will be held next Wednesday.
In a telegram to the Minister of the Interior, published in yesterday's Chinese press, one Sz Pung-chang denies that opium is being sold under the official stamp of the Chinese authorities and under the) seal of the Bureau for the Suppression of Opium and Contraband, but this statement has been repudiated by the Chinese newspapers, which publish photographs of opium bought under official seal.
Mr. 'Tseng Vu-tseng, former 'Binister of Finance, who was sent to Shanghai by the Chief Executive, marshal Tuan Chi-jui, as " special investigator, has returned to Po King to submit his report to the' government, Both Marshal La 'Yung-hsiang, Tupan, and Mr. Chang il' Governor of Kiangsu, have Sent staff officers to Shanghai to investigate the situation.
Accompanten by a Municipat police officer, French detectives visited the Paulun Hospital on Sunday and arrested two Chinese who were under treatment for injuries received in a motor-car accident in the French Concession late on. Saturday night. "It is believed that they were engaged in opium smuggling and that they were bein chased by armed robbers at the) time their cor was smashed wp.
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