Conference Convened to Prevent Continuance of Misdeeds Mukden, June 25, Owing to the many scandals associated with the administration of the new Opium Bureau within the Three Eastern Provinces, the Government is convening a conference of the heads of the departments throughout Manchuria in order to warn them against the continuance of misdeeds, Farmers who have planted poppy ave declining to pay the tax of $24 per mow levied in respect of opium cultivation, pleading that the present crop is uncertain owing to the absence of rain, They assert that they should not be called upon to pay unless timely rains fall and make the crop a success.—Reuter.
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