'A Korean arrived in the sity in' JJuly and, for come weeks, carried on a brisk. business in heroin from an inn within the east gate. He had the effrontery to. remonstrate with the Magistrate in person, when one of his agents was arrested for breaking the Taw. Last week this "foreigner" was persuaded to depart for Tientsin after 2 very successful visit, At the station his Tuggage was searched and 300 silver dollars were discovered. These] he was obliged to exchange for notes before he was permitted to go.
aay consignments of "pai mien" are ie a well known fact that every brought down from Tientsin on the persons of passengers travelling the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Rumour rie that some railway employees and the potice are deeply involved the racket and, although their Identity is known, no one dares take faction, At the same time the export of silver dollars goes on merrily from stations along the line by Koreans and their accomplices.
'The political tension now prevalent in North China is felt by all classes. Tt is manifest in higher officialdom. 'Among the populace, whose national consciousness has greatly developed {in recent years, the situation is clearly' understood, widely discussed and bitterly resented.
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