No.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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RECE Rre? 27 OCT 09
Government House,
Hongkong, 24th.September, 1909.
Lov 25975
In reply to Your Lordship's
Despatch No. 160 of the 18th. ultimo, I have the honour to
forward the enclosed memorandum which explains the
circumstances in which this Government decided to reduce
the royalty payable to the Opium Farmer on morphine from
$30 to $10 per tael, and the precautions taken to prevent
the sale of morphine in this Colony except for legitimate
medical purposes.
2.
As Your Lordship will have noted
from the printed Memorandum enclosed in my Confidential
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Despatch of the 15th. of last March, I hold the view very
strongly indeed that the sale of morphine, and of opium
for eating, which is rapidly increasing in China con-
-stitutes a more serious danger to the welfare of the
Chinese nation- and also to the Chinese population of
than the smoking of the drug. I would
this Colony
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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