An Almost Wholesale Closing Order: The Seven Favoured Nations Vladivostok, Feb. 21.
The Regional Revolutionary Committee have issued a new announcement with regard to the functioning of Consular representatives in the Maritime Government. The Consulates of America, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, China, Norway, and Japan have permission to continue their activities. The Consulates of Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Finland, France, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Esthonia must cease their activities, but the personnel of these Consulates may remain in the town of Vladivostok as private citizens. The Consulates of Belgium, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Rumania, Switzerland and Jugo-Slavia must cease functioning and evacuate their entire personnel from the territory of the Republic within even docs from the date of the order, February 20.
NO OPIUM GROWING, The authorities have issued the following order with regard to tLe production of opium With a view to restricting the cultivation of poppy for the purpose of producing opium owing to its occupying land which might be used: for the cultivation of more useful crops and to its detrimental effect_on public health:
1.—The sowing of poppy in the territory of the Maritime Government is forbidden.
2.—Responsibility for seeing that this order is carried into effect lies with the Gubernsky Otdel Upravenia (Regional Department Administration) and its local representatives.
3.—Any found guilty of sowing Poppy in the territory of the Maritime Government will be fined to the amount of Rs. 100 gold for every dessiatine or part of a sessidiine sony and in default of months' hard labour. ea rose payment will be sentenced
4—Responsibility for the collecting of such fines rests with the Gubernsky Otdel Upravlenia. _5.—Any persons giving information leading to the discovery of Poppy plantations will be rewarded to the extent of 25 per cent. of the fines collected. The reward ap-Plies equally to Government officials.
6.—This order takes effect from the date of, its publication in the official press organ of th Gubrevkom.
Owing to the difficulties which have been encountered during the elections for the Workmen's Coun-oils in the Maritime Province as a result of the inadequacy of the statistics relating to the population, it has been decided to make new census of the population during the current year.
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