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under the impression that with certain
alterations
it would perhaps meet with the approval of the Govt
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India, I
think it would be premature to consider
at the present moment Mr. Keswick's suggestion with a view to their practical
Extension.
I have not been furnished with a copy of the proposals of the Chinese Govt, but I have no doubt they will at once be submitted to the India Office and referred
to Your Excellency.
If they
are rejected by Her Majesty's Govt, Mr. Keswick's scheme might then be taken up, and with this view I will supply Your Excellency with a
memorandum
thereon drawn up by
Mr. Hillier, Chinese Secretary of Her Majesty's Legation, whose long residence in China
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and intimate acquaintance with the
opium question entitle him to speak with confidence.
Earnestly, if the Chinese proposals are
accepted
it would be very necessary
to supplement them by certain
restrictions in the class of vessels
authorised to carry opium from India to China.
Dated Shanghai, 19 October 1885. From J. Keswick, Esqr
To - N.R. O'Conor, Esqr Her Majesty's
Chargé d' Affaires. Pekin.
During the past year I have on several occasions been consulted by Chinese officials regarding the collection
of import duty and of the Likin tax on opium, and
Consequent ...
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