Mr. H. G, W. Woodhead, ina special article, examines historically the development of the opium suppression policy of successive administrations in China. On the proposals which a committee of the Shanghai Municipal Council is "now. examining. he does not look with favour and generally arrives at the same conclusions recently emphasized in these columns. In showing how careful the Council has to be in guarding itself against the opium, racket, Mr. Woodhead throws light on the unsatisfactory conditions previously obtaining in the French Concession. He reveals that the late M. Wilden received special instructions from Paris 10 "bring the scandal to an end." So, 'M, J. Meyrier arrived to take over the vacant Consul-Generalship and he had a new Director of Police ser-viees in Commandant L. Fabre, Their Joint work in waging war on the "opium racket," Mr. Woodhead points out, was confronted by great culties:
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