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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[April 6.]
SECTION 1.
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No. 95.)
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No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received April 6.)
Peking, February 20, 1907. WITH reference to my telegram No. 27 of the 8th February, I have the honour inclose translation of the Imperial Decree referred to, the effect of which is to remind he Provincial Governments that the Court attaches great importance to the onscientious fulfilment of the earlier Deerce and Regulations for the prohibition of bium.
I also inclose, for your information, copies of the correspondence with his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi, Vice-President of the Wai-wu Pu, on which I based the reply ent to you in my telegram No. 28 of the 10th February.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
ranslation.)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Imperial Decree.
A MEMORIAL has been received from the Board of the Interior devising neral arrangements for the prohibition of opium; and whereas opium is injurious the public health, we have already issued an Edict commanding every province fix a limit of time for its strict prohibition. The Board having now recommended their Memorial the extension of branch Anti-Opium Societies, and that the ium dens throughout the provinces should be uniformly closed and prohibited as d down in the new Regulations, it is hereby commanded that all Tartar Generals, ceroys, and Governors shall take part with their subordinates in conscientiously rying out these steps. But strict as must be the prohibition against smoking, it is en more necessary to forbid the cultivation of the poppy, in order to sweep away e source of evil. The responsibility is, therefore, placed upon all Tartar Generals, ceroys, and Governors to see to it that cultivation is diminished annually, as scribed by the Regulations submitted to us, and that within the maximum term of years the supply of foreign and native opium is completely cut off. There must no laxity or disregard for this beneficial measure, which the throne so ardently
res.
February 7, 1907.
r Mr. Tong,
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Tony Shoa-yi.
Peking, February 6, 1907. I HAVE received a query from His Majesty's Government with regard to which hould be glad to have definite information.
In the opium proposals which your Excellency and the other Ministers of the wu Pu asked me to transmit on the 30th November last, it was suggested that Indian import should be diminished by one-tenth each year after 1907. I took to mean that the settlement to which the proposals relate was to take effect
January 1908. Is this correct ?
The Government of India have, I understand, notified the continuance of sales
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