Honan" Divisions are Turned Adrift without Money market here, but added more than per picul and compelled the Chamber of Commerce at the point of the bayonet to take it off their hands. It was the cruelest piece of graft that has yet been perpertrated by the present soldiers.
Oriuy ty Prenty.
The other kinds of graft ave just as bad, but a little less offensive, for most of it is done secretly. The selling of opium, the opening opium dens and the taxing of lamps for these dens is worse, but not so well known and it is done secretly. The writer has more than once seen dozens of loads of opium escorted by armed soldiers transported to different parts of Southern Hunan. It has taken China 10 years to weed out her opium curse and in a few months unprincipled soldiers
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