themselves to blame that the price bid for opiv
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India certificated for China was raised in the course
of the year 1911 to double what it was at the
beginning.
So far as "the enormous losses" sustained
by the merchants are represented by the difference
between the inflated price which opium reached in
the autumn of last wear and the price at which it now
stands, the responsibility for them cannot be justly
said to rast "on the Chinese Government alone.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(S'D) LIONEL ABRAHAMS.
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