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Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Government House,

Hongkong, 27th.October, 1908.

I have now been in Hongkong for

over a year, during the whole of which time I have given

unremitting attention to the Opium Question, and have had

the advantage of the long experience of several very able

Officers and of access to documents which are not available

even to those Members of Parliament who have made this

question the object of their special attention.

2.

I have the honour to enclose a

Memorandum in which I have endeavoured to correct some of

the misapprehensions which appear to be currently enter-

-tained on certain aspects of this question. If Your Lord-

-ship should consider that the proposals and suggestions

it contains and the facts and arguments by which they are

supported are such as generally speaking commend themselves

to Your Lordship's judgment as worthy of serious considera-

-tion, it is possible that you may approve of giving to

RIGHT HONOURABLE.

THE EARL OF CREWE,

&C

800-.

80 • •

this