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Weiwupu to His Majesty's Minister.
2 MAY 08
PEKING,
March 26th, 1908.
On receipt of Your Excellency's Note enquiring as to the restrictions to be imposed on the import of Turkish and Persian opium the Board requested the Revenue Council to deal with the matter without delay and informed Your Excellency accordingly.
The Revenue Council have now communicated to me the following report submitted, under instructions from them, by the Inspector General of Customs:
"Persian opium is transhipped at Bombay for Hongkong by the two British firms David Sassoon and Company and E. D. Sassoon and Company, the total quantity in 1903 being 6,800 piculs, in 1904, 5,104 piculs, in 1905, 2,901 piculs, in 1906, 3,542 piculs and in 1907, 2,247 piculs. Some of this opium is prepared at Hongkong and some shipped to Macao, Kuangchowan and Foreign Ports. The following are the quantities shipped to China in recent years: in 1903,
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