(2)
470
t
Teɗmadqe? no tara troqĦT O* Honort sett avar I
to redead? mnodynos ert mort matq=fet a berlener I „dres
-or¶ nodns) edit to noiraa odò tantang naitnetong sozermon
and not anotte fuger von nalouhort nå at aatstrońítus Estoniv
basda tært banors edỡ no „muigo wat ni sherd add to fománon
,ebant arid ni vlogonom a ynitesto "a bomis anotdalimsy
betoette viawolteevent parið þa、edɗatu Ytaan" of Ctattoos
ere to staɗ noidamolni on gaivali .aðarrotni daiting
t
al of badqstrof«t I notnæð ni nezad ed od tuoda egeta
mid 1107t færael bna,drogar e rot Istered Durano) alydanta”
no voteɔ!" erit of bedastorg bað er tæde .dt"s zodaetqe? no
,enotta lumer and onesti wan edd tantana vid÷S radmadya?
art mi vlogonom a batretro vil ®**b* berablenco ed,doł w
.ebant rulqo war
I „moldarmotni bellateh erom to noneads ert mI
-netqez mo urquela” ect of draerqer nødt **o* *ort oh bio O
suit of branet ni VIIsool bler saw dotdw waiv and rides tod
art ·entabrostwa Ision)vo*% nid yd nexat 897BARM WON
end nogu troqot oldqstyslet 8 no? [[so of beatmong uquW£A""
-solummoɔ saw eat¬tupne terit to Jigast erla hna,doet dra
‚aniño somi¬¶ mort adok erit ni .Ata reɗotao no em of bat
nolta fenard в eaofone of "pomod and evar 1 doldw to
BOMBNATHI ni dadd demetsta atrið mort herreqqa dI
to moltorea tebru berent "enottalunsÄ woɑlmeqr2" art o
-Blared a doldw to Tasy aids to enkrq8 eris ni eno¬NT OFİ
Istonen broses a'disael .T" of 0`xibreqqA ni a "seq is noft
.o dodaqaab ya nt beaofone maltasu rurigo sɗe no troqef
of gibaso071 saw nożna) is vorsoly erts (NJAS ert to 28%
TO WAY ZAELIna aqoda Lla tot madaya gutameɔti a scutitant
agoda went to galnego edt gattididong ben,muut qo bersa 19
-roo aaw etnomɗalidaten gnidelxe to moltentalge" aksit ano
completed.
expla ined in a telegram from Mr. Fox on October 10th, trans - -mitting the substance of the Viceroy's reply to his protest. The Viceroy contended that the new regulations only affect- ad the retail trade and did not interfere in any way with the wholesale importers. The number of licensed shops had to be limited in order to secure their eventual dis- appearance, and did not constitute an official monopoly in the trade.
The scope of the regulations was further
On the following day I received Mr. Fox's deg= patch of September 29th, of which a copy is enclosed,set- ting forth the grounds upon which he had based his ob- jections to the new licensing rules. These objections were
in effect, that the registration of all opium shops and the limitation of their number to that already engaged in this trade would give a monopoly of business to a small ring of Canton dealers, and that such a restriction con- travened the Treaty right of British merchants "to carry on mercantile transactions in China with whatever persons they please"
moreover,
It seemed to me, however, that while the proposed system of licensing and limitation of numbers might be so worked as to created a virtual monopoly, and would require careful watching, it was difficult to object to it'ab initio, since some such measure of restriction must be adopted if the use of opium is to be stamped out, and
the principle that no new shops should be allowed to open was laid down by the Chinese Government in Article V of the original proposals in eleven articles submitting to the Throne in 1906, as well as in the "Supervisory Re- gulations of this year.
The first of these documents, which formed Annex A to Mr.Leech's first Opium Report, has been tacitly accepted as China's programme for the internal prohibition of opium, and if the Viceroy at Canton carried out his promise to issue a reassuring proclamation pointing out that his new regulations only applied to the retail tr
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.