450

confined to

Chara

who doncia

9 are

willing to

high muality

pay a high pusi for it; respostable farans beam the law.

of whas (posible) to curtain

boho

people

ратором соста

caters for mudur a

of registration of

vaidinto

for params staying in

All there

difficulties i

*

I posited mut

to (say)

with same provacio the Colony for a period. Sii 5. Emidle pomited out that

The way of registration still remained, the donatiofaction wh, wit be a merchant from Canta

The other

1260

feveral or

win the Colony

As

Ya NR.

Latina Platan

visit to requitand consumer

have his pipe,

ed.

but his guest wo. be debaned both from

bringing

hai

of

with havin or pr

(Presumably

funsharing what he required in

The repitens

his standing

Grahni

ws. not admit of the hospitality of pipe, to the guest).

all

the visiting

Sui M. Debunnigne rephis that Hu, old, prande for population of Kwang Tung

sue withy

pomited amount

du

dun

hy

عام

*

bout Lai 5. SuidA

ther

bud ArgAAAA

Cars

the whole

Gutte

Athe

of this and might labour & businers away from the Colony,

matter in having cowartand coulou's If he thought we

theim G

Cpman'dan the y

of

submitted.

A

the

93

Dear Faskin,

57819

26 NOV 23

THE FOREIGE,

LA

13th November, 1923.

40.54 846

We are writing to you officially today in regard to the 0.0. letter of 22nd October (48260/23) saying that we entirely concur in the proposal

to address the French Government on the subject of the smiling of oj lum

into ong Kong from French territory.

The resort of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports of Hong FOIL.

which was enclosed by the wovernor in his confidential despatch of 16th

August, was an extremely striking document, and I should like to discuss

with Grindle and yourself its bearings on the question to be considered

at next year's Jonference on the Far Eustern question. The Juperintendenti

of Imports and exports who, as I understand, estimates that the amount of

opium annually smoked in the Colony is nearly double that sold by the

Government Monopoly, concludes that it is impossible to contemplate any

further steps towards the supression of onium in the Colony as 10 08

the supplies of Chinese opium are so abundant. I am not sure that this conclusion is the right one, and he is not confusing two different things the ossibility of surpressing opium soking in the Colony and the continence of the unopoly on its present lines. One conclusion

which might plausibly be drawn from the report is that the present system

of control is shown to be quite ineffective for its pur; ose.

-

Kal

Į

The report also tend to confirm what we have reviously urged won you that much more vigorous measures on the rt of the local overment are re^uired for setting at the big people like lemasee who are behind the trade see es ecially the opening and concluding centences of the o Superintendent's report of Lot 7th.

We have just come upon the tracks of other powerful firms and

Syndicates/

For the point frei

Extern

active

On the other question (that of taking

Koratal Charter ander

The sumuggling belmid unges that

Nox.

to the guine lay

влдым

to get at the big num

L. M. Belumigue without further delay

business)

shad. (a) sequine (fomer's burial cu

the Dangerous Durys Acti, & (b) at

men serpicked of the traffic. This is now being

te vrated the

buring concerned

dona

regularly in

comes. of

this country

& is purviding

1. astonishining amount of endene.

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