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Governors osacerned had been asked to appoint Committees te consider what stapa could be taken to carry out Fart & of the Convention. Iwo reports were to hand - that from Hong Kong which was frankly negative, and that from the Straits Battle- ment and Federated Malay States, which was very full, and anggested certain lines of advanos.
Ir. Fletaber said that the agitation against Opium was mainly foreign - with the exceptie -of-a-for-fanation, the
of
Chinese did not wien (to abolish upium woking, and were but
pesint shar
any wa
determined to smoke. Opium was not to be compared in its deleterious effects with alsobel er Indian heap, the use of both of which was elnewḥers in the impire permitted.
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Chinese working classessknow me thing of the aritation, and his
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policy Goverment felt sony strongly that they should not be asked to take any further steṛe for the suppression of opium than they `k- bad already taken, as long as opium production and spium
who umuusal thing hand-Ching smoking prevailed in China Hrolf. Be pointed out that it impracticable for a few British officials in long long te prohibit a antional custom mong the thousands of Chinese resident there. Hong Kong was an inteṛral part of China 10,000 Chinese grossed the frontier daily – and until the source of supply in China was„oes off, nothing further could be fire be done. Hong Kong Government felt it was(Illogical de
the hand to
suppress opium smoking, which, in-their-wise, vasġooni-
to a certai exter
medicinal,
ziąsła (especially in the cure of phthisis), whom the satiar of erium (s very dacperons shand (praoties), -permitted and encouraged in India.
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Er. Kowton remarked that as Hong Kong is a British possession, British standarde must prevail there, and ne Chinese.
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Sir Salosim Delevingne pointed out that His Majesty's Ləvernment were committed to the policy of the Opium Convention, hes like at bast