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HINA TRADE.
ONFIDENTIAL
[October 29.]
SECTION 1
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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, October 29, 1906.
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r. T. L. Corbett,-To ask the Secretary of State for India what steps the Government has taken to carry out the unanimous Resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the abolition of the opium traffic between India and China.
Answer,
The honourable Member is no doubt aware that the Chinese Government are nderstood to be contemplating the issue of regulations for restricting the cultivation, mport, and consumption of opium. His Majesty's Government have not received any ommunication on the subject from the Chinese Government, but, as I have already tated, they are prepared, when specific proposals are put before them by that overnment, to consider them in a sympathetic spirit, and His Majesty's Minister has een instructed to make a communication to this effect to the Chinese Government.
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