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(3.) A considerable quantity of the opium boiled by the monopolist is smuggled through Hong Kong and Macao to the United States. There is no evidence in Hong Kong to support this statement, but I have arranged that in future samples of prepared opium seized in the Philippines shall be sent here for identification by analysis. I have obtained samples of the opium prepared in Kwangchauwan for the purposes of comparison.
4. It is evident that the supply of raw opium is largely in excess of the demand for the prepared drug. This fact is a menace to the success of a Government opium monopoly in Hong Kong, and a source of annoyance to this Government through whose territory some of the surplus supply is sure to be smuggled to foreign
I have, &c.
countries.
F. H. MAY.
OPTUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
[June 16.]
SECTION 2.
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Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received June 16.) Sir,
181, Queen Victoria Street, London, June 16, 1913. I HAVE the honour to forward the enclosed resolution passed at a conference held on the 5th June at the Central Hall, Westminster.
I am, &c.
A. CALDECOTT, D.D.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Resolution.
AT a conference held in the Central Hall, Westminster, on Thursday, the 5th June, 1913, Rev. Professor Caldecott, D.D., D.Litt., presiding, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :-
This conference desires to call the attention of His Majesty's Government to the resolutions adopted on the 15th ultimo by the Representative Board of the Anti-Opium Societies.
The conference, whilst joining with the Board in grateful appreciation of the valuable concessions to the Chinese Government and people announced by His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons on the 7th ultimo, agrees with it also in regretting that this action does not free China from the obligation contained in the agreement of May 1911 to admit Indian opium into China, and hopes that this further concession will be granted without delay.
The conference has had evidence before it to show that the consent of the late Manchu Government to the agreement of 1911, referred to in resolution 3 of the Board, was given under strong diplomatic pressure, and did not represent the genuine wish of the Chinese people generally.
June 16, 1913.
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A. CALDECOTT, Chairman.