Frou Ovm Owie Commoner Amoy, San. 23.
The om cial war against drugs! proceeds. apace and two. *morphia Addicts were taken in. rickshaws through the principal. streets to the outsidrts and shot. Five more, including a woman, are "awaiting ratification, from Foochow, of the death penalty. In the three larger cities onthe mainland; Changchow, Chuanchow, and Engchoon, 28 addicts were executed during the week. The drugs are smuggled in and are sold by Japanese subjects who run the On January 20, when the s, Haitan arrived In Foochow, a Formosan was arrested, for smuggling morphia in rape sugar, The Amoy Muntelpal loyal adviser has taken up the matter of oplum~ shops with "the Japanese Consul General and has asked that these shops should be decreased this year to 60 oF if that is not possible, to Umit them to 100, The oficial pulled that to decrease the number was an easy matter, but it was more dimMeult "to find employment for those who. would be compelled to] abandon their business. Public eatery could only be guaranteed if these were remunerated for the loss. of their business and to enable them mllably to engage in some other activity.
'An arrangement was effected, how= ever, whereby these shops gradually will' be decreased. On February 1, police, the Municipal Government, through the office of the Mayor, of the hill Intending to finish the picture in a few hours. "But Nemesis came in the form of the police who arrested the crowd. The contractor and guarantor went to police head-'Quarters to remonstrate and also Were arrested and detained.
mercial advertising and desecration. The is saved from com-But, how docs it happen. that _one Munlelpal department grants permis-slon for work to. proceed, assesses the tax to be pald, while another department prohibits the same work and arrests those who attempt to carry It out?
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