Su Hopwood
As proposed. The result will not be very satisfactory!
HBr 917 10.7
I do not know what grounds there may be for supposing that the Chinese are not honest in this matter. Sir E. Satow tells a very different story to us.
Art as proposed 12.7.
The Chinese eagerness to entail the trade varies, as might be expected in different persons.
No. 155.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
C.0303 22601 RECO F.39 7 JUL 09
Government House, Hongkong, 7th June, 1909.
I have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's information copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton on the subject of illicit traffic in Prepared Opium.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
Francis Henry May
Governor, &c.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
&c. &c. &c.