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6 Highness
PEKING,
September 28th, 1910.
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Your Highness:-
I have the honour to invite Your Highness' most
serious attention to a further case of illegal seizure
of foreign opium conveyed under transit pass which has
occurred at Canton, the actual seat of the Viceroy of
the Liang Kuang provinces.
The facts of this case, which have been telegraphi-
cally communicated to me by the Governor of Hongkong,
are as follows:-
On the 21st instant the Shun Yi Shiu shop at Canton
purchased from Messrs. Sassoon and Company five chests
of Patna and six chests of Malwa Opium. Full duty and
likin was paid on this opium by the purchasers, who in-
tended to convey the opium to the province of Kiangsi
for sale. The Kuangyun Office however refused to per-
mit the opium to leave Canton without payment of the new
tax, and the opium chests are now detained in Canton.
I have the honour to remind Your Highness that this
Lov.
Prince Ch'ing,
&c.,
&C.
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