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Hongkong, 28th July, 19fol SEP 10.
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I beg to confirm telegram from the Chamber of Commerce of
this date forwarded through the courtesy of the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation.
"Kwangtung Opium Tax and regulations still in force, there
are no indications of withdrawal. Viceroy disregarde Wai-Wu-Pu's
instructions. Merchants are suffering enormous losses. Situation
becoming unbearable. Financial failures apprehended. We look to Your
Excellency to make China indemnify merchants for losses sustained.
Fervently appeal to Your Excellency to bring about immediate with-
drawal. Further delay disatrous. System has been extended Swatow,
Opium bearing transit pass seized for payment of illegal tax. Fear
extension elsewhere. Tax and regulations admitted on all sides
distinct breach of Treaty".
"Hewett Chairman".
Your Excellency has, I understand, already been in-
formed by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of
this Colony of the extension of the Canton system to Swatow.
Opium Merchants at that Port are now prevented from
carrying on their business in raw opium without first obtaining a
licence from the local branch of the Kwong Wing Yuen Firm of Canton,
while some balls of raw Indian opium on that which x duty has been
paid and bearing the Imperial Maritime Custom'e transit certificate
have been seized in Swatos by runners of the Opium Monopolists, and
are held pending payment of this new tax to which exception is being
taken on the ground of its illegality.
I would beg to remind Your Excellency that notonly
part
have the various representatives of His Majesty's Government in this
H.E.V.G.MAX MULLER, M.V.O.,
H.B.M'S CHARGE D'AFFAIRES,
PEKING.