The most recent device for raising the wind has been the rescinding of the prohibition of gambling whiok has been in force since the return of the Reds in November. The contract for the monopoly rights has been put up to auction, and the price obtained for the, city of Swatow was $1,010 per day. The whole district of Chaochowfu went for $370 per day. If figures like these prevail over the whole province, the relief to the official coffers should be considerable.
This restoration of liberty was celebrated yesterday by a fusilla of crackers in front of the largest gambling house in the city, and crowded attendance of clients, Just about this time last year the students were holding a great anti-gambling demonstration, "and parading the strocts about it, know-ug well that the authorities were in favour of repression, Now they are discreetly silent, and find an outlet for their energies in holding memorial meetings for the "Poking martyrs" and denouncing the foreign Powers who' are said to be responsible for it all, The financial difficulties of the government arg being popularly attributed to the failure of the Russian sources supply oh which they have been able to draw until recently, Whether the policy of non-cooperation with the Soviet government which seems to have been adopted at Canton is the result of this failure, or the cause of it who shall say?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.