The Waiwupa has telegraphed to all the Chinese Ministers to foreign Courts, stating that the Goverament is doing its ut abolish the opium trade in Eh this trade must be stopped within ten years, counting from September 15,1906 when the Imperial Decree was issued; and that in view of the success already obtained in various provinces it is necessary to advise. leading Chinese merchants and others in foreign countries to establish opium prohibition offices to check those who use the drug. In reply, the Chinese ministers to Great Britain, Germany, France and Rassia state that they will immediately instruct secretaries of Chinese guilds to convene meetings for the discussion of this question and will report details to Peking after definite arrangements have been made. According to the last report from the Chinese Commercial Attache at Vladivostok, there re about 400 opium dens in the Russian colony, which are visited by thousands of Chinese Inbourers and others from Shantang and Chi who come vii Chefoo every spring and chiefly retarn in the winter. Taotai Kuei Fang states that he has issued orders for these dens to be closed at the end of September. Some of them will be permitted to convert themselves into opium shops, bhut that, by ce-operation of the Russian authorities, no Chinese subjects will be Vladivostok hereafter. Teotei Kuei itted to keep or own opium dens adds that be intends to open antiopium houses in Vladivostok. Intelligence from Harbin states that the Castoms Taotai in that city has called the Russian Consul-General's attention to the illegal establishment of opium dens by Russian subject in the Russian city.
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