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OPIUM.
[August 30.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
REC? REGS:0 NOV 10
SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
Messrs. E. D. and Messrs. D. Sassoon and Co. to Foreign Office.--(Received August 30.)
Sir,
9, Fenchurch Avenue, London, August 29, 1910. WE have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 27th August, in which you own receipt of our letter of the 9th instant, and we are pleased to learn that is Majesty's Minister at Peking has addressed a strong protest to the Chinese Government in regard to the illegal seizure of opimu.
We are looking forward to receiving a reply to our letter of the 12th August, in which we begged that His Majesty's Government, in face of the admitted illegality of the tax, would press for an immediate suspension of the same.
We have to-day had advice by cable from Hong Kong that the opium seized at Swatow has been released, but that the district authorities refuse to release the opium seized in Canton.
We feel sure that prompt and euergetic action on the part of His Majesty's Government regarding the question of the flagrant breech of treaty rights will bring the whole matter to a satisfactory issue.
We have, &c.
E. D. SASSOON AND Co. DAVID SASSOON AND Co.
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