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consult with the Treaty Power Consuls so as to have the

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same prohibitions enforced within the various Concessions

and Municipal Extensions within a limit of time, which

prohibition accordingly the Customs Taotal formally applies

for,

thus setting a precedent for assuming that rules

must be enforced within Foreign Concessions which the Chin-

ese Authorities choose to impose outside them.

I propose to reply to the Thotal that no establish-

monts for the sale of opium or for the smoking of it exist

within the limits of the British Concession or "unicipal

Extensions.

I hear that it is considered to be impracticable to

carry out the order to close the Divans within the very

brief delay indicated by the Viceroy.

I have &c.,

(Signed)

1. C. Hopkins,

Consul-General.