We are getting very tired of answering the same question again and again, and we apologize to there of our readers who are also getting tired. But let us have one more try to fix Mr. Foster to the point. By the Treaty of May, 1911, China agreed to admit 4 certain quantity of opium, to be diminished year by year. At any time, if she could prove that poppy-growing was extinct in a certain province, that province could be closed to Indian opium. A considerable time before all provinces become "opium free," China suddenly decided not to allow any more opium to leave the port of entry, although she was not above accepting the duty paid at that port on the opium. Thi fact—that there were still oer-tain provinces to which opium ought to have been admitted under the Treaty—is proved by the accumulations of Indian opium now in Shanghai, every chest of which was marked for China, according to the amount allowed for import under the Treaty, before leaving India; which country 1 would never have been allowed to leave if the importing of it into China had bern contrary to the Treaty. In other words, China promised to do certain things and then did not do them. If this is not breaking treaty, there is no meaning in facts. The deliriove applause bestowed upon China for her behaviour, mostly by persons who were not even remotely con-
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