Chinese Sells Cholera Tur Silver Nationalization Movement, initiated in Kwangtung some time ago, has achieved highly encouraging results, says a dispatch to the "Sin Wan Pao." The total absorption of the white metal by the Kwangtung Provincial Government, it is reported, reached $5,500,000 in March and $5,000,000 in April. Apart from collection in cities and towns. the provincial authorities are now sending agents to push the movement in various districts and villages in the countryside. According to the nationalization measures, the provincial authorities heve been paying a 20 per cent premium on coins and articles of pure silver content and taking mixed silver grains, bars, arid wares at the value of their silver contents.
Certificates, Dies Citing it as an example of carrying a good thing too far, the Shanghai Nippo, local Japanese daily, yesterday evening reported that an unnamed Chinese coolie living in Pootung had chad of heart failure after alleged! receiving 20 anti-cholera inoculations.
The Chinese, the daily said, had not undergone the treatment so many times because of his zeal to be protected from the disease. His motive, the daily charged, was lucre.
To his superstitious friends who feared it was "bad joss" to be "shot in the arm" or those who were squeamish, because of the aceompanying reaction, he sold his certificates for 20 cents.
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