police of the Japanese C. General, acting as po: tension has relaxed on geisha front" the "Tairiku Shimpo reported yesterday.
The ruffled tempers of Hongkew's professional entertainers, paper revealed, were caused by the impending enforcement of compulsory health examinations by the Japanese Consular Police in keeping with the policy of the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare for the curbing of venereal disease. area, had affected 50 people, of whom no-one died. The rice, after a chemical analysis had been made, was found to have been impregnated with or been placed in an arsenic solution.
Two incidents also were reported, he added, in which poisoned barley had been fed to horses, 23 dying from this ration.
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