Chungking, Nov. 30.
News of a startling nature is current In this city. For some time past, a large number of cheap books, mostly reprints of old Chinese literature, have been on sale here, and have found an exceptionally good market due to the low price asked for them. According to an examination of several copies by a Peiping doctor, however, they contain tuberculosis germs in their leaves, and according ly are being collected by the various [schools for destruction by fire.
Further measures are being adopted connection with the drive against Jopium. The latest rule, which has now gone into effect, is that each [family ts required to furnish the headman of the street with a bond fusranteeing that none of its members smokes opium or is an unregi tered smoker. A similar bond is furished by the headmen to the police substation, concerned, which is in turn responsible to the head office.
On the other hand, the opium market here is on the up grade, as large quantities are being shipped to meet the demand in ports down river, where the Yunnan and Szechuen opium stocks have been exhausted. Meanwhile, in the name of the Chairman of the National Anti-Opium Association, Gen, Chang Kai-shek his wired all members to be present la Chungking at the Association's frst regular meeting on December 20.
More than 400,000 catties of hemp are new being produced in the Sui-yung district of South Szechuen, Where, about five years ago, an agriculturist discovered that the sell was particularly sulted for the growing of the grass. A year's trial proved to farmers that they could grow this more successfully and profitably. than anything else, and the st of hemp-growers {9 rapidly increasing, Used in the manufacture of linen, it is chiefly said in Jungchang and Lung-chang.
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