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SISURUA DOJM83
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No.27.
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H.B.M. Consulate General,
Canton,
August, 4, 1910.
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Sir,
As I had the honour to report to you by telegraph, I
had a long interview, early this morning, with the Acting
Governor General at which, amongst other subjecte, the question
of the opium levy was fully discussed.
His Excellency who has not apparently been informed of
the sense of what you conveyed to the Wai Wu Pu, as communicated
in your telegram to me of July 30, reprobates the action taken
at Swatow with regard to opium under transit pass, and assures me
that there will be no interference whatever with raw opium. He
express surprise that the extension to ten days of the time-limit
for boiling down did not prove acceptable, and while promising
to consider the matter further, insisted that a time-limit was
necessary in order to guard against accumulation of supplies, and
that prepared opium in Chinese hands was a legitimate object of
taxation. Whatever others may say to the contrary, he is con-
vinced that the only means of preventing hoarding, and thus
relegating to an indefinite date the extinction of the smoking
habit, le immediate boiling down, and cites as an illustration
w the case of a member of his own family, who had, a to speak
He then vintage, opium ranging from ten to twenty years old. appealed to me not to stand in the way of a sincere attempt to
I replied secure the end desired by both Great Britain and China.
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W.G.Max Müller, Esq.M.V.O.
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