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that it was the Chinese craving for the drug, and not

England's desire to force it upon China, which was now

responsible for the continuance of the traffic. This

view of the question received confirmation from Mr.

Morley's recent speech in the House of Commons which

the Chinese construed as an invitation to them to

prove the sincerity of their desire for the cessation

of the Indian import of opium.

Mr. Tong, from whom I received this account of

the genesis of the present movement, could supply me

with little information as to the steps which are to

be taken to enforce the Edict, but the method of pro-

cedure, so far as it has been formulated at present,

seems roughly to contemplate a gradual reduction of

the area of cultivation of native opium pari passu

with a corresponding decrease in the import of the

foreign article. Smokers of the drug, if officials,

are to be given a term of about six months in which to

break off the habit, and the ordinary people are to

be dealt with on a time scale graduated according to

the degree in which they have become addicted to the

habit.

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