Shansi, Sept. 21.
September -18 passed off quietly Shansi Tt is reported "from Taiyuanfu that a crowd of students collected outside' the. 'Shansi Hospital, and that, they: expressed their intention of foreing' that way into Mr. Liang, the former Head of the Normal' School, who has been. lying there since Ko received injuries at the hards of the students on hig return from Nan-King some weeks ago. Mr. Lion; ig a member of the Tang Paani students' have held him largely responsible for the death of one of their number when they Were fired on in Teuytanfa nearly two years ago. Soldiers and police "gua the hospital entrance and in a few minutes the" demonstrators dispersed. Martial law was declared, troops were, stationed at various Points and the main. streets were: patrolled, but there" were. no" in= dents ind educational work gen-[erally was uninterrupted, The recent. issue of instructions by General Chiang Kai-shek to the
inces, including Shensi, forbidding ovineal chairmen of eight prov. the cultivation' of opium, ig into esting in view of the facts that General Yen Hsi-shan enjoys the opium monopoly in Shansi and that the drug can be bought openly in gimest any. quantity. The news issued by "Ching Pao" through Reuter on September 16 that the Frovincial government had. promulgated regulations to the effect that vendors and smokers of. this drug Woald be liable to the death Penalty as from Novenber 1 next This applies only to thi use of such narcotics as coe heroin, ete. for which scores of copie' were executed prior to April of this year, Nanking then gave Instructions that. the death penalty was not to be inflicted for suc offences and convicted persons were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Conditions have. become go bad again, however, that following representations" from General Yen, Nanking, has agreed the reimposition of the death penalty and this ig to become effective from the Ist of mext month.
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