For a considerable time now, opium shops have bea carrying on their illicit business in this centre, and the authorities have done little for nothing to suppress.it. 'Two! Jdays ago, on the 27th, the Tupan Hsiao Yao-nan, issued' orders the Commissioner of Police that the opium traffic is to be strictly suppressed and that all opium shops must. be closed within a time limit lof three days. The order has come with extreme suddenness, and everyone is wondering how it will isted At the entrance ta. his village. cee ahagt" period demanded." be possible' to carry it out within behalf.
An old. woman of who lived nest by, had been hilled tae "Sisghal Jounal of!bin be, taped 1 Pea ade Use peal eriprals who were. _cieeted are living in the foreign concessions of Shanghai.
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