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fact both damaging to your country's reputation and to the efforts of my country to restrict opium. I have therefore to request that you will ask the Hong Kong Government at once to punish the ship omers concerned and to warn shipping plving between Wuchow and Hong Kong that in future no ship may smugle opium. I have further to request that I may be favoured with
a reply.
(Sd.) Chu Chao-hsin,
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.