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Consul-General, Canton, to Finister No. 91/15.
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Canton, October 19th., 1915.
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I have the honour to forward herewith copy of an Agree- -ment signed on October lat. between Ta'ai Nai-huang and the Hongkong Opium Combine.
It will be remembered that an Agreement was signed at Shanghai between Ta'ai Nai-huong and the Shanghai Opium Combine on May lst. last to which the Hongkong Combine adhered. That Agreement provided for the free circulation of Indian opium within the three provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kwangtung in return for a payment to the Chinese Government of a voluntary surtax of $3,500 a chest. Previous to the date of the Agreement, the Hongkong Combine had been contributing to the privy purse of the Military Governor a sum of $600 a chest on all Indian opium imported into the province through the regular channels. The sales, however, had fallen off owing to the stronger inducements held out to General Lung and his military satellites by the traffic in Yunnan opium, and, as far as the Province of Kwangtung and the Hongkong Combine were concerned, the agreement did not work satisfactorily owing the competition with the certified drug of native (Yunnan) and uncer- -tified Indian opium smuggled into the province from Macao, Kwangchow- -wan and Tongking.
The skeleton of the present agreement was put together during the visit of Ts'ai Hai-huong to Hongkong in September last. At that time the Combine were not at one in their views. On the one side
were the speculators and the omers in India, for whom certain firms
were agents, who were inclined to trust to the May Agreement and to hold
out for better terms. On the other side were the firms of long standing in the trade which were anxious to terminate the trade as speedily as
possible on terms which could be regarded as favourable.
Ultimately wiser counsels prevailed and the agreement
Was successfully concluded on Ts'ai's return from Canton. His task
here was by was no means easy and he appears to have overcome opposi-
-tions through the influence of General Lung to whom he made generous
largess