After Investigation by Hankow Officials: Ring Reported to Have Been Smashed-Up Fae Our Own:
Amoy, June 17.
The Opium King to whom was farmed the opium monopoly for the Province of Fukien is said to have been arrested at Foochow. He lives Ina beautiful house In Amoy, beyond the Muntefpal area. Some time ago this house was the scene of a tragedy. A git], whom he bought, looked after as housekeeper. One might he re~ turned late and discovered—the gardener and the housekeeper asleep together. "He shot the girl dead, but the gardener escaped with a wound, number of other crimes are Altributed to him, but money has always allowed him to escape the net of justice, Last year, so it is said, he was granted a licence to sell morphia, cocaine. and similar drugs from the Monopoly Department of Foochow—be this as it may, the use and distribution of these drugs, dur-ug the past year, has risen through-Gut the provinces to a phenomenon degree, And this despite all apparent efforts by the Government to control the business, Licensed opium shops have been €ecreased and are supposed to crease annually unfit they disappear, but sales of opium and other drugs sully soar. "'Traffckers in cocaine and morphia and addicts have been many places, but the drugs sold competitively with the less harmful opium. Early this month at Chuangchow a man' was shot for bringing in opium. On the same date' a. sailing. vessel cleared from 'Amoy for the interior, but she was held up at Chip Bee,' because report that she carried opi other drugs. The vessel was nothing was discovered, but another search was insisted upon and. this Mime a large quantity of contraband fay well og a quantity of silver was found, The men en the vessel were arrested, eight in number, and a few days later the skipper of the vessel was shot,
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