529

Encl. 2 in Despatch of 3rd August 1868.

The Vice Roy Jui to A. M's Connel.

[?]

immediate action to

maller

should

occur

as your

Jee

that

the

before you,

opinion would, if favorable,

Copy

Canton

at once

place

me

in a

position

28th February 1868.

to reply

to any

the Colonial representations of

Government. Finally

The Viceroy has

to Hale

I may

repeat

the provincial Govern-

ment

is in

error

that the Opium Trade is

constantly evaded

by the operations of

smugglers

and that

in view of

the opium imported

is stored at

Thongtuong

and Atao,

it is intended

to now

fix upon

an eligible point

in the direction of

those two places

at which

a central

[Signed]

D. B. Robertson,

H. E. Sir Rutherford Alcock K. C. B.,

Peking.

the fact that

the Coast of Kwangtung

is

from foreign

OW

The

straits

for

Le-kin

that levied at various places

to A.

Your $5.

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