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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[31836]

No. 1.

150

[September 20.]

SECTION

دسم

42545

RECE Kr 16 NOV UT

Mr. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received September 20.)

Peking, September 20, 1906. (No. 173.) (Telegraphic.) P.

THE framing of measures for the strict prohibition of the cultivation and consumption of opium has been ordered by a Decree published to-day, which commands that within a period of ten years the complete eradication of the evils arising from native and foreign opium shall be effected.

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