COPY.
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No.23289/10.
Gentlemen,
Foreign Office,
July 1st, 1910.
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I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Groy to inform you that
he has had under consideration your letter of the 14th ulto. complain-
ing of the action of the Canton Authorities in imposing regulations
levying a new tax on prepared opium.
In reply I am to inform you that this his attention has been called to the matter and that His Majesty's Charge D'Affaires at Peking has informed the Chinese Government that His Majesty's Govern- rent could not accept any regulations which enforced an additional duty
on raw foreign opium in a Treaty Port and that the Wai-Wu-Pu had
undertaken to inform the Canton Viceroy and were calling for a report.
In the meantime I am to state with regard to the tax in
question that His Majesty's Consul General at Canton has explained
that its main object would appear to be the prevention of * storing
large stocks of opium, and that the Agent of your firm at Canton
had informed him that in his opinion the regulations which are equally
applicable to native opium do not infringe the additional article
of the Chefoo Convention.
Sir E. Grey would also refer you to the reply which he
returned to Mr. Rees M.P. in the House of Commons on the 16th ulto.
on this subject.
I am, eto,
Messrs.E.D.Sassoon & Co.,
9, Fenchurch Avenue,
E.C.
(ad) F.N.Campbell.