This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
(June 25.)
SECTION 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, June 25, 1908.
Mr. Theodore Taylor,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, having regard to the recent Rescript of the Government of China ordering the entire cessation of the growth of the poppy and the manufacture of opium therefrom throughout that Empire within two years, and in view of the declared policy of His Majesty's Government to proceed pari passu with China in restricting the opium traffic, the Secretary of State for India will give orders that the planting of poppy in India during the coming autumn shall be materially further restricted.
Answer,
The Secretary of State is not aware that a Rescript abolishing poppy cultivation and opium production throughout China within two years was recently issued.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[32969]
No. 1.
(June 25.]
SECTION 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, June 25, 1908.
Mr. Theodore Taylor,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, having regard to the recent Rescript of the Government of China ordering the entire cessation of the growth of the poppy and the manufacture of opium therefrom throughout that Empire within two years, and in view of the declared policy of His Majesty's Government to proceed pari passu with China in restricting the opium traffic, the Secretary of State for India will give orders that the planting of poppy in India during the coming autumn shall be materially further restricted.
Answer,
The Secretary of State is not aware that a Rescript abolishing poppy cultivation and opium production throughout China within two years was recently issued.
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