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Kuangtung, irrespective of whether or not the Kuangyuan office had opened a branch for the collection of the levy at any particular point.
Messrs. Sassoon say that Tsong-ch'ong opium was in transit from a foreign port, meaning presumably thereby Hong Kong. Such was not the case. transit from the Chinese port of entry-Kowloon.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
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I have, &c.
J. V. JAMIESON.
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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RECE 20 OCT 10
[October 4.]
SECTION 1.
(No. 67.) Sir,
Mr. May to Consul-General Jamieson.
Hong Kong, September 2, 1910. IN reply to your letter No. 79 of the 30th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. and Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. are not the only persons who have protested against the regulations to which you refer. Repeated protests have been made by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and joint representations were also made on the 10th ultimo by the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, the Mercantile Bank of India, and six other European banks established in this colony. Moreover, I am not aware that His Majesty's Government have accepted the regulations as being in conformity with the existing treaties. I am also at a loss to understand your reference to Kowloon as a " Chinese port of entry."
2. I am informed that the regulations and tax in question have been successfully resisted by His Majesty's consul at Swatow as well as by the French consul at Canton on behalf of a French firm, Messrs. Sales and Co.
3. I enclose herewith, in original, four receipts*, dated the 30th ultimo, for payments of the tax. These receipts have been handed to this Government by Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co.
I have, &c.
P. II. MAY,
Officer administering the Government.
No. 1.
Note communicated by M. Cambon, October 4, 1910.
L'AMBASSADEUR de France serait heureux de savoir si le Gouvernement britannique a pris une décision en ce qui concerne la conférence projetée pour réglementer le commerce de l'opium. Cette question faisait l'objet d'une note de Sir Edward Groy du 1 avril dernier.
Ambassade de France, Londres,
le 4 octobre, 1910.
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