The Archive · 1935

HOPEI MOVE TO CURB SILVER SMUGGLING

Rehabilitation Makes Good Agents Placed in Tientsin

Progress Banks won Oun Own Conusronoent Kweiyang, Apr. 20. In' an effort to curb the constant

undergone great changes. A few days|country through this port, Since 1 last wrote Rueivang es] mugging, of siver' out "of the ago 800 members of the Pih Tung Hopei Provincial and the. Tientsin Tui arrived. These smart looking municipal authorities to-day took young men are now doing the work drastic steps. of the local gendarmes and are They announced that they were be seen at every street corner direct placing agents in all local banks to Ing traffic, answering questions, en-question everyone withdrawing silver Joining the populace to walk on the [dollars or purchasing them, and to in-Toft side of the streets and to keep vestigate the explanations given—the streels clean; in short doing United Press. everything that "model gendarmes could and should do, and they are winning the hearls of the people by their patience and firm methods of

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