CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 285

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Enclosure 1.

Y.

sir,

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Peking, 3rd. November,

1908.

47463

Rec

REG 28 DEC 08

I have the honour to transmit to Your Excel-

-lency herewith copy of a Despatch which I have addressed to

His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the general question of the prohibition of Opium in China.

Your Excellency will perceive that the pro-

-posal to establish a monopoly has not met with a favourable

reception at the hands of the Board of Finance.

I have etc.,

(sd.) J. N. Jordan.

xcellency

Sir F. J. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.8.0.,

&C++

&C.,

&C...

Hongkong.