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My Lord,
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With reference to my despatches Hi
the
30 th, 1918 and No.9 of January 8th, I have report that the agivation in this country wit
traffic in opium and more especially in morphine is
rapidly. The question is not only being taken up by
sionaries and the foreign press, but to a great extent
the Chinese thomaOŽYER. The public burning of tha s
of Indian opium at Shanghai which is to take plñde #i
so far from closing the matter is giving rise to a st
Movement to prevent this sacrifice being nullified by
gling unɑ wy a renewal of cultivation. Opium is now jważ
about seven times more in China than outside i∙
Are many simple mesna of amuggling it into the
that the tempaation to profit by this situation is hoọi
to prove irresistable to less scrupulous persTM of
nationality. The Japanese by their geographical propingshi by their sccupation of Kores, the Kuantung peninsula, Taing
tao and Formosa, by their special position in the ladi
and Shantung Railways, by the abuse of Japanese Posti and of extra-territorial privileges, are in a particuia. favourable position for indulging in this nefarious traffig
It is therefore inevitable that the present agitation
The Right Honourable
Karl Cursen of Kedleston, K.G., G.0.3.1..
etc.
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FOREIGN OFFICE.