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restaurants, tea-shops, and brothels also provide facili-

ties for opium smoking. There are also still more numerous

shops which sell cpiun pipe-stems and bowls, opium lamps,

and other appliances.

We request His Majesty's Covernment to take the lead

in giving the necessary instructions that in all such for-

elen settlements or concessions the measures for inspec-

tion and prohibition shall be similar to those to be adopt-

ed by the Chinese territorial authorities.

6. Article XI of the British Commercial Treaty already

contemplates steps to be taken for effecting a prohibition

against the dangers involved in the importation of morphia

and instruments for its injection. But the adhesion of

all the Powers is necessary before this Article comes into

operation. In March and April of this year, the Wai Wu Pu

addressed notes to the representatives of all the Powers

which have not yet concluded their Commercial Treaties ask-

ing them to agree to the prohibition of the general import-

ation into China of morphia and instruments for its injec-

tion. Most of the Powers have now agreed, though there

are still some who have not replied. We have pressed

these for an answer, and in view of the beneficial effects

of