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suppression of the native opium trade and by the
prohibition against the importation of Indian opium.
To meet this danger the Chinese Government makes two
proposals for which they request the support of the
British Government.
Hong Kong should be
One is that the Governor of
requested to render every asais-
tance towards strictly preventing both the raw and
propared opium entering Chinese territory. The other
is to levy a high duty on any such prepared opiwn
entering China.
5.
In the present state of affairs, the
hotels, the restaurants, the tea-shops, the brothels
and other public resorts in the foreign settlements
are supplied with opium. The Chinese Goverment de-
Bires that the supply of the drug to these places
shall be prohibited, as well as the "opium-dens"
closed. It also desires that the sale of pipes,
lamps and other implements used for or in connection
with the smoking of opium, in any shops, shall be
stopped. They request the British Government to in-
quire into these matters and to instruct the proper
authoriti08