When tavelling, the old rest for chair bearers. takes on anew form. insieua of the long reclining smoke, they wke their powder staneing up—no tea even, It is a grey and white powder, alton it ism the form of Tablets oF pulls, Outside counties are being visited by opium commissioners ana u final chance ig being given to Fegisier. Faslure to. register within the me means dire punishment and now the names are coming in rapidly. The Government is succeeding in driving out opium smoking, but fall-Ing to prevent the inroads of heroin fund morphia, The people's faces are sull thin and pinched and tense—they are still inthe tolls One night a group of soldiers went to the robber's home and captured him, "He was taken to the local government office, tied to the bars of a window, with three soldiers to guard him. "About 2 am, he set up a gre wall that he was tied too tightly, but one heard him. About 3 o'clock begged piteously to be somewhat Joosened, The head snarl, his nearest elghbour, went up and' cased him. With this help, he wriggled loose about dawn, and made his escape. During the last four years, four robberies have occurred at Sinkalsl, three of which have now been traced to. this will soon The take
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