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comisiems vader the mehumte régime as 51 aristo in most of

the previness of Chine

In vestern Chomok, according to a repers receivet

Tự His Majesty's Contul General at Bankow fren a missionary

Course, a konty opium bez le being levied which mal-grouz

are compelled to share in paying, the roomis being shat prostically evazyona grows sona pagge to enable him to pay the

It is, of course, Almost impossible to sušinaša kon

for China se a vhela has reseder trên the position in 1917 when

ika sountry was officially recognised to have been purgel of

opins growing. IN Âu malolated, however, by the And-Op2MM

Association that the aumat of sylum mătărated at the present

times lion vonethere between ten and twenty per cent of that

grown before the days of prekið tíone

ho Enlant trampers of opian likevics in, as I have

had the honour to raport on mong than on duension lately,

immensely on the inare2004 I am at present enquiring into a

poreleient report that a Chinese #bosnship on the Yangtze

controlled by Chinese military anthorities which lately und

two tripe down river from Lahang sarried large enrgom af

aumgglən oyimm. It is admitted that the Custom užtisarra

failed to soareż. the vessel komenna of opponition by

parsome in sharge. The Comilasiemer at Jankow stated in reply is an enquiry regarding this sato, ihat ke done Det atbempt to have Devernoan 3 ormed Totsels boarded or searched

as there is a danger of his effleurs being ill-treated by

soldiers, The British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai

have allude to the incident in a letter addressed to illu Majesty's Conen) General and have pertinently enquired what

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