by Chuxg Hua Photo Ca, Nanking and as the weeks go by the flowers bloom in delightful profusion and attract great multitudes from the The city merchants open booths for the display of their wares, silks, cottons, bamboo goods household articles," foreign merchandise and numerous lines of clothing and sandals. Tea houses and restaurants are spread convenently all over the grounds, The ubiquitous Chinese theatre has a, good stand, and the weary sightseers love to throng the place for a rest ind laugh at the comedy displayed. Quite modern dancers from Shanghai are here on special contracts and succeed in drawing full houses.
Opium Increase All visitors coming to the city agree that more opium has been planted throughout the province of Szechuan than in any previous it. Interrogating the farmers, one learns that they have received definite orders from the officials to plant the poppy with the understanding that if they refuse they will be taxed whether they grow the opium or not. Some are reporting that so much has been planted this year that it will make a great difference to the price of food next year, It is evidently having a bearing now on exchange. Of course silver is cheap and the aca) military satraps are turning out cheap copper coins at the mint. In fact 200-cash pieces are being turned out about the size of former. ten cash pieces. Tu fact former ten cash pieces with a better alloy of copper are being used in local rency a3 hundred cash pieces. This has ruined the exchange, Daily the dollar is soaring higher. Now the Mexican silver dollar is changing "for 14,000 cash and more, One day it almost reached 15,000.
sends up the price of food.
on sale in great quantities at_a very cheap rate—quite within the range of the poorest. Even students are using the drug quite openly, Now various benevolent agencies are waking the terrible ravages of the opium and are planning to begin an active educational campaign against it, and not a bit too soon.
Some of the troops recently arriving in the city from the south report Boxer activities on a large scale near the Yunnan Boréer. The Szechuan soldiers engaged them hotly and drove them across the into Yunnan. The Boxers encamped on strategic heights, The Yunnan sold'ors believing the old tales of the Boxers being impervious to bullets took no chances wath them and crept up on them during the night and them, Scoutmasters listening to instructions befo while they slept. 3
An Interesting Lecture tion, Addresses were also made by Dr. Tai, Dr. Tsai Yuan-pei and Wu Tehui, after which slogans were' shouted and the review ended. Both scouts and guides were highly extolled for their smartness and efficiency.
Headed by a military band, the scouts carried out their grand march and, when they passed the [saluting base, they smartly present-led their staves. Then they marched in formation round the drill ground and finally formed up in their original column:
Four aeroplanes flew overhead to bute leaflets when suddenly lone was noticed to crash. This wi totally wrecked and both the pilot and his passenger were seriously injured, They are now in hospital in a critical con
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