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Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Government House,
Hongkong, 27th.October, 1908.
I have now been in Hongkong for
over a year, during the whole of which time I have given
unremitting attention to the Opium Question, and have had
the advantage of the long experience of several very able
Officers and of access to documents which are not available
even to those Members of Parliament who have made this
question the object of their special attention.
2.
I have the honour to enclose a
Memorandum in which I have endeavoured to correct some of
the misapprehensions which appear to be currently enter-
-tained on certain aspects of this question. If Your Lord-
-ship should consider that the proposals and suggestions
it contains and the facts and arguments by which they are
supported are such as generally speaking commend themselves
to Your Lordship's judgment as worthy of serious considera-
-tion, it is possible that you may approve of giving to
RIGHT HONOURABLE.
THE EARL OF CREWE,
&C
800-.
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this