Peiping, May 17.
The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Hope and Charhar Political Council has succeeded in securing the ce-operation of the Japanese Embassy here in stopping Japanese and Koreans selling drugs along the Kinhan railway, especially at Pacting-fu, Shihchiachwang, and Mentoukou, according to reliable Chinese reports.
On May 7 more than ten Japanese and Koreans went to Changhsintlen and broke the windows of the Bureau of Public Safety there, and demanded. that the bureau make no more arrests of Koreans selling drugs.
The Foreign Affairs Commission has appointed two officials to con-duet an inspection tour, in company with Japanese Embassy appointees, to investigate the Changhsintlen affair and other similar incidents in places near Peiping.
The Chinese and Japanese delegate will frst stop all the drug selling activities and will later discuss the question of compensation for the losses sustained by the Chinese as a result of repeated incidents it different places—Reuter, ling on Ratlways Nanking, Moy 21, To curb the illlelt transportation of poisonous drugs by railway employees, railway guards and porters various lines, the National Opium Suppression Association to-day an-Rounced a sot of regulations drafted by the Ministry of Railways, The regulations provide that the "mutual guarantee" and "Joint responsibility" system should be instituted, whereby every three railway staff members should guarantee each other's conduct, If any of the trio violate the regulations, equal punishment shall be meted out to all three.
It is further stipulated that if one of the three discovers that any of his "partners" carries opium or ils allied drugs, he should' report to his superior, All the railway administrations have been instructed to carry out this plan within three months—Central
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