In the meantime the opium speculators have become annoyed at the large slice taken from their profits by the heavy tax increase and they have stopped nearly all transactions and are holding their stocks to, walt and see If the government will relax. on. taxes.
"An ingenious method of smuggling has been brought to light recently by the discovery that certain drug ped-Jars were using homing pigeons. Some have used relays of pigeons to bring the drug from Jong distances, Others take the drug to market on the bodies of pigeons and if they are warned by spies shead that the inspectors fare on the lookout then they release their birds before the officers can check them, Tu the course of dugging a road in the grounds of the Methodist High School the workmen uncovered three earthenware pols and about forty bricks which are believed (o date back to the Ming Dynasty, These were placed in the school museum.
Two technical experts from Nant~ king have arrived to examine the Chungking mint with the idea of operating it for the production of subsidiary coins for this province,
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