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Opium Advisory Committee at its recent meeting, which aim at the adoption
of a uniform policy in the Far Eastern Possessions and the fixing of a
maximum limit of consumption. I will subest to the Foreign Office that
as soon as the Report adopted by the Committee at its recent meeting is
available in print, copies should be sent to our kinister at Peking, with
a request that he will arrange for publicity being given in the local
press to the proceedings and recommendations of the Committee, and to the
part played by the British Government in the formulation of the proposals.
I shall be glad to hear whether you agree.
Yours sincerely,
MALCOMM DELEVINGNE.
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Dear Plakin,
I am very sorry not to have answered sooner your note of the 20th October on the subject of the Annual Reports from the Straits Settlements and the Balay States for 1922. It came while I was zway in Geneva, and I have been sc busy since my return a week ago, that I have only just been able to get to it.
It is
I entirely tree with the draft letter you propose to send to the Governments, and I have no addition to it to sugest. absolutely essential for the purpose of the conference on the Far Eastern question next year, that we should have comparable figures for
the different Possessions.
I think I suggested in the note I sent you the other day that the Govermente amonia we asked to cheak the isures in the Tacle for 1921 which is printed as Amex 10 to the minutes of the Fifth Session of the Opium Advisory Committee. These fitures will be useful for the
It would be better, purpose of comparison with the figures for 1922, however, if the Governments of the Colonies concerned would also give
They have the comparable figures for the five or ten years preceding. given us the actual figures of consumption in the replies to the League of Nations questionnaire, but I am not sure that we have got all the data as to Chinese population, etc., und in any oase it would be better that such a table should be prepared on the spot by people who thoroughly understand the figures, than that it should be done here. agree, I am sure, that it would be unsafe to draw any positive conclusions
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