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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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C.O.
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[August 31.]
RECP
SECTION 1.
REGE 16 SEP 07
No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, August 31, 1907. WITH reference to your letter of the 3rd ultimo, forwarding the views of the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong on the anti-opium proposals of the Chinese Government as far as they affect Hong Kong, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, in which Sir J. Jordan, after perusing Mr. May's despatch, suggests that the import and export trade in prepared opium between Hong Kong and China be prohibited, each Government to take measures to prevent smuggling into its territories.
Sir E. Grey has been informed by Mr. Morley that he sees no objection to Sir J. Jordan's recommendation so far as the Indian opium trade or the measures relating to it at present under discussion are concerned,
Sir J. Jordan does not consider that this would appreciably affect the trade of Hong Kong, and Sir E. Grey therefore proposes, if the Earl of Elgin concurs, to approve his suggestion to authorize him to address the necessary communication to the Chinese Government.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Sir J. Jordan, No. 159 (Telegraphic), August 9, 1907.
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