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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

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