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Inclosure / in Sir John Jordan's No. 456
of Decem
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kasorandum.
November 16,1910.
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16 JAN 1911
Mr Max Waller has been informed by telegram from i Majesty's Consul general at Canton that a proclamution Wag issued by the Opium Investigation office on November 1st providing for more careful supervision over opium in tran- sit to Kiangel and for an annual reduction of 30 per cunt in the quantity conveyed there.
His Bajesty's Consul General has very properly pro- tested to the Governor general against this illegal action on the part of the provincial Authorities, and Yr Yax Kaller trusts that now the matter has been brought to the notice of the Central Government instructions will be sent at once to the Viceroy to cancel that part of the procla- mation which refers to a thirty per cent annual reduction in the quantity of opium conveyed to Klangai, in so far sa it may affect the trade in foreign opium.
In conclusion Mr Max Xller cannot but express aur- prise that the Provincial Authorities should proceed in f
the above manner at a time when the whole opium question is under negotiation between the two governments.
(sd.) W.G.Max Maller
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