The Canton gambling houses of} other days have been closed for many months, but games of chance have flourished just across the Pearl River in the City of Honam, where, the power of General Li Fok-lim, is so great! d on to the gambling privileges despite the threat of the government to send troops to force him to close the!
legal houses. Not, even lottery houses are at present allowed to exist in Canton, but the tickets of; Honam establishments are sold in Canton shops.
Soong, head of the Treasury, is generally believed here, will shortly give his official sanction to the reopening of fan-tan houses in Canton City, due to the pressure that is being brought to bear by employees of his own department, who have not been paid for two re-months. Part of the revenue which will be derived from this source will, of course, be used to pay A.! back salaries, while it is said that!
Fort will be used to defray the expenses of a northern military expedition. Many of the radicals are desirous of sending troops north with the object of taking the Provinces of Kiangsi and Wunam, Picket Boats Less Eficient Picket boats, for some reason other, no longer steam slowly up and "down the "river near the! Hongkong steamers to prevent, Chinese from going to and from these boats, and due to that fact and. the additional fact that the government has disarmed many of the strikers' pickets, it is now quite easy for both passengers and cargoes to reach the boats bound for Hongkong. Armed resistance has lately been offered by boat people in several instances, and the strikers have been unable to arrest the boatmen because—they themselves have had no weapons. 'The pickets have just demanded that they. shall again be permitted to carry arms and have requested that the picket boats be put into operation again. Otherwise, they] have pointed out, the boycott' must, necessarily be broken,
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