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The Wai-chiao Pu have the honour to observe that it is on record that import of Indian opium into many individual provinces has been prohibited in accordance with article 3 of the Opium Agreement. Reports have been now received from Kiangsi and Hupeh showing by reliable evidence that poppy cultivation in those provinces has been prohibited and extinguished, and that import of the native drug from other provinces has also been forbidden. It follows that, as in the case of Chihli and other provinces, these provinces should be placed on the list of those into which import of Indian opium is forbidden, pending the revision of the Opium Agreement. The Wai-chiao Pu have the honour to ask Mr. Alston to consent to this, and trusts to receive his reply.
(Seal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.)
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Mr. Alston to Wai-chiao Pu.
Peking, July 16, 1913. MR. ALSTON has the honour to acknowledge the memorandum of the 3rd July from the Wai-chiao Pu to the effect that reports had been received from Kiangsi and Hupeh showing by reliable evidence that poppy cultivation had been prohibited and extinguished and that import of the native drug from other provinces had also been forbidden, and requesting that these two provinces might be placed on the list of those into which import of Indian opium is forbidden.
Mr. Alston would state, in reply, that His Majesty's Legation has ever been ready to make the necessary investigations in all cases of provinces which it might be desired to place on the prohibition list.
The poppy season in Kiangsi and Hupeh is now over, and it is too late to attempt any inspection. It is unfortunate that Kiangsi and Hupeh did not make their applications earlier, if they wished to be placed on the prohibition list this year.
Mr. Alston is calling upon His Majesty's consuls at Kiukiang, Hankow, and Ichang to submit reports in this connection, and on their receipt will again communicate with the Wai-chiao Pu on the subject.
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