their exact purport
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In the course of the sume afternoon
I received a visit from the head of the Kuang Yuan Office,
who asked me if I had any amendments to propose b. the
Regulations as they stood because, if so, he was prepared
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to consider them. Seeing that had I proposed any amendment
as suggested a legitimate inference that the rest of the
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text met with my approval could thereafter have been
drawn, I simply informed him that, as the agreemont pururd-
ine opium had been drawn up between the foveinaunts of
Great Britain and China I could not, as a subtrainato,
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say what view the former would take of the regulations
until they had had an opportunity of perusing them 1
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went on to ask him the same questions, which I had direct-
ed Mr. Giles to put to the Opium Prohibition Baresk, ano
in both cuses the answers given were identical. It is poss-
ible that a garbled version of this incident may form the
basis of the report, the accuracy of which Sir Henry May