Governor Chao has recently sent cout a severe telegraphic mandate to all the deputies in Hunan, based on orders received from the Ministry of the Interior in Peking. Thus he finds it convenient to the base actions, from time to time, on directions from the central governnient, forgetting, for the time being, the "fact of Hunan's autonomy. The mandate states thet (@ great many radical ai vocates of Commun-sin have been found in Kiang: and are likely to be discovered in other provinces as well. This type of propaganda must be checked or it will harm the people."
A foreign telegram from Harbin states that MIN. Ostroumoff, Gondatti, Mihailovitch and Step unin were released on bail yesterday afternoon on Marshal Chang Tso-lin's orders. The bail is $120,- }000 in the case of M. Ostroumoft and $20,000 in the case of each of the others—Reuter's Pacific, Ser-
Tue "Shanghai Journal of Commerce" reports that Mr. Cheng Chien, the Civil Governor and act-_ ing Tupan, has ordered the arrest and punishment of a leading local opium traffickers named Cheng: hopes thus to suppress the evil.
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