Wolfram ore has been surreptitious ly shipped to Hongkong, and such a volume of it has been stored in the Colony as to defeat the very purpose of the monopoly bureau that deals in this mineral, The civil authorities who have been conducting the monopoly have been powerless to cope with the smugglers. In Hongkong the price of wolfram has been ridiculously low that the Canton Bureau, with thousands of piculs in ts godowns has, this past few months, rarely seen a substantial order.
'This sad state of affairs has' made it come to pass that the monopoly has Been carried on at a loos. Wol-from miners and the companies who make their profit by gathering together the limited output of the various mines, have been suffering, cutely, because they have not got back even their outlay from the monopoly bureau. The latter is in their debt to well over $1,000,000.
Tro Kuangtung bigwigs have deemed it advisable to let this civil office go by the board, and a military group will take over the buying and felling of wolfram ore in Kuangtung Province, Inspectors " have gone forth to all mining districts Southern Kiangsi and Northern Kuangtung and, as soon as the mili tary knows exactly, the source of wolfram supply, their garrisons will gee to it that very little, if any, of spirited agents in Southern Kiangsi placing orders, the ore being shipped up North from that Province and down the Yangtze to Shanghai, A wol-from control Board has, therefore, been organized in the Southern military area of Kiangsi, which entirely under the control of Kuang fung's First Army. In the near future, when' the machinery gets to running most smoothly, practically all of the wolfram from this adjacent Province will have to come down to Canton and be delivered to the monopoly here.
The Kuangtung authorities expect to have a working arrangement with the Colonial Government in opera tion soon, 40 that smuggled ore may be seized seven if it does get into the Colony.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.