473
DOMESTIC.
No.
HONG KONG
754
(Subject.)
Rec C.O. 16754
Fr. 11 MAY 08
Office or Individual,
Reign 1908
19 May
Last previous Paper.
66%
Partly $20,000-7.& 8. Trd.--9--
23,000 -11-7.
W. & L. 20,140-
28,009-11-07,
Subsequent Paper.
Opium: Export from China to Hong Kong.
Lends copy deep from Peking reporting measures taken by Chinese Govt. to prevent stoppage of Presumes that H.K. will take reciprocal measures.
(Minutes.)
1. Fiddes. Asks to see the closing para of Mr. Leach's despatch and Sir F. Lugard's despatch to which it refers (in 10574).
I printed (M. retd. Harding tells me) tel. to Govt. of H.K. on was drafted.
That when drafting 31339/07, his idea was that each country would take measures against smuggling into its own territory only: not that legislation would be passed to prohibit export: but I imagine legislation.
to have (not "prohibition" necessarily involves 70./18124).
which the Govt. has passed).
wrote hard intended [ght 12/5. But May 29]
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