Peking, July 8.
The Premier, "Mr. Lu Cheng-hsiang, has telegraphed to. the Tutuhs and to the heads of the Civil Administrations a message, which begins with the usual sel. depreciation and concludes with useful exhortation concerning the necessity of supporting the Govern-
Tlearned on my way up that opium production was entirely suppressed this year. East of thix city is a robber district. Recently a campaign against the brigands succeeded in getting a couple of hundred heads, so now the region ix quieter than for a long time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.