'The Municipal Police experience difficulties in suppressing opium smuggling, chiefly gri account of the peculiarity' of the Settlement boundaries and the existence of four (including the River Police) different police administrative areas, which form an area distinct in itself no natural boundaries between component. parts. fare in some cases merely street and sometimes pass through the tenors of houses. While the Police Forees endeavour to c0~ each other, under the circumstances full ce-operation is impossible because of fundamental difference ideas of police administration, activities of the Municipal Police pear to have had the effect of mi ing the trade in the Settlement more and more difficult.
Finally it should be said that the illicit traffic in opium shows no signs of diminution, and consequently the efforts of the Narcotic Section of the Shanghai Municipal Police have to be maintained at full pressure.
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