Governor. No.
gand bonf
1909
15 Th
HONG KONG
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DESPATCH.
C.O.
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RECO Rree 15 APR OC
Suppression of Opium Traffic.
Instructions auto closing of Dwania d
Last Previous Paper.
termination of lease to opium farmers
are
being carried
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and be read in connexion with this
In Lord Crewe's despatch on 43471/07 it was stated that the action to be taken, after March
be based
a
renewal of
the farm and the gradual suppression of divans. To keep on
only proud practicable
Amoy
the farm is the
Comput
f
an desire to relinquish
control on consumption. As Sir D. Lay has
noted (at the end of his memo -18122)
we
such
experiment of a farm monopoly has had to abandon it
as subsequent Papers relating to local conditions
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the enormous interconnection with the mainland, the condition in Hong Kong is widely different from that in the Straits. From there