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I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information
and for communication to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, a copy of
a Note which I have addressed to the Wai Wu Pu on learning by tele-
gram from His Majesty's Consul at Amoy that a proclamation had been
issued at that port imposing an additional tax on prepared opium.
I take this opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of
your telegram of September 17 reporting that certain persons were
desirous of taking over the privileges granting to the Kwang Yun
Office and had addressed a petition to the Chinese Authorities for
the approval of revised regulations, and in reply I beg to inform
you that I had already the previous day renewed my protest at the
Wai Wu Pu against the additional tax on prepared opium and that I am
now in telegraphic communication with the Foreign Office as to what
further steps I can take to secure the withdrawal of the objection-
able regulations for which I have been fruitlessly striving for
over three months.
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Sir F.
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H. May, K.C.M.G.,
etc.,
etc.,
Hongkong.
etc.,
I have etc,
(ad) W.C.Max Müller.