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Sub-enclosure

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H.M.MINISTER.

21 JM 03

PEKING, 6th. October, 1908

sir,

At an interview at the Wai "u Pu on the 29th.

ultimo Your Excellency informed the Board that you were

in receipt of a telegram from H.M.Acting Consul-General

at Canton reporting that regulations for an official mono-

poly of the sale of prepared opium were about to be put in

force, and requested that as such a measure would be most

improper the Viceroy should be directed by telegraph to

refrain from enforcing it.

In reply to telegraphic enquiries addressed by

the Board to the Viceroy at Canton the following talegran

has now been received from His Excellency:

"By the 5th. Article of the Regulations for the

Prohibition of Opium, sanctioned by the Throne and issued

by the Government Council last year, local authorities are

required to ascertain the total number of shops for the

sale of raw and prepared ophum in all cities, towns and

villages, to keep a register thereof and issue official

licences to carry on the trade, and no more shops must be

opened in future. Any person wishing to purchase raw or

prepared opium at these shops must produce a license and

no sale shall be permitted to take place without it. The

Reorganisation Bureau's proposal to require all shops for

the sale of raw and prepared opium and all persons purchas- -ing raw opium with a view to preparing it themselves, to

buy and sell the drug only under an opium shop or smoker's

license respectively is in accordance with the regulations

sanctioned by the Throne and does not constitute official

opium monopoly.

I have received a despatch from H.M.

Acting Consul-General at Canton stating that the prohibi-

tion to open any new shops for the sale of raw or prepared

oplum after the registration has been completed was an

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