After dealing with natural alain: ties and bandit and communist ac-Liles, the report, turns of ° the, question reign Aggressl the North" and says:
puppet government' was set up {in eastern Hope! and a so-called speial area was declared. Simultancoriots of eastern yuan, waste, "Chang el, and Shang were occupied by Daridits, AMI the Collectorates a Checking Omices were forcibly taken. A large quantity of Micit salt was smuggled into eastern Hopel {rom Liaoning Province The most out~ standing was'the "Te-lung Company" organized by Japanese merchants. Under the protection of the special pellc@ force. of eastern Hopel, sales agencies were established in' every town and villags, The salt revenue affected, A of Changlu was, therefore, greatly
Kwangtung "invaded! quantity of foreiga salt that pad Jnvaded Rwangiung District dur While brought in by junks was unknown, forw'en salt brought in by steamers from Siam and Annam. to Hongkong amounted te some 1,190,000 Shih piculs, nine tenths: of which wore smuggled into Kwangtung, District. 'Annam salt, smuggled into' Kwangsi from Lungchow was sis large quantity.
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