CONFI
Hongkong.
I A L.
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19662
R 3 JUN 07
Government House,
250
Hongkong, 1st. May, 1907.
Enclosure 1.
My Lord,
In view of the prominence that the
Opium question has assumed, I have the honour to transmit
for Your Lordship's information copy of a letter addressed
to Sir Matthew Nathan in July last by the Representative
Heads of British Churches and Missions in this Colony on
Lenolsoure 2.
Enclosure 3.
the subject of the system on which the traffic in Opium is
conducted in Hongkong, and of the acknowledgment of this
letter and of the ultimate reply which Sir Matthew Nathan
addressed to the writers.
Steps are being taken to embody
in the Manual on Hygiene in use in the Schools in this
Colony a statement of the evil effects of the excessive
use of Opium and Alcohol.
2.
I entirely concur in the reply
addressed by Sir Matthew Nathan to Archdeacon Banister,
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and I am convinced that events will prove that if China
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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