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Enclosure 1.
Y.
sir,
279
Peking, 3rd. November,
1908.
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Rec
REG 28 DEC 08
I have the honour to transmit to Your Excel-
-lency herewith copy of a Despatch which I have addressed to
His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the general question of the prohibition of Opium in China.
Your Excellency will perceive that the pro-
-posal to establish a monopoly has not met with a favourable
reception at the hands of the Board of Finance.
I have etc.,
(sd.) J. N. Jordan.
xcellency
Sir F. J. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.8.0.,
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&C.,
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Hongkong.