"The P. & T. Times" state that an agreement was concluded on July 1 between Mr. (). B. Towns and the Anti-Opiam Bureau of Chihli Province, whereby Mr. Towns will treat for the Board several hundred persons addicted to opium or other drag habits. Arrangements for the housing, ete. of the persons to be treated are being perfected, and the work will be well under way almost immediately. This announcement signalizes the beginning, apparently, of a movement which will presently engage the close attention of China and the outside world, Coming, as it does, at a time sufficiently in advance of the meeting of the internstional opiam conference in Shanghai in January, the results of these extensive operations will undoubtedly be factor in the deliberations of the Commission,
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