CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11] — Page 397

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now attempting to impose upon the trade in foreign opium are much the same as those of which we complained last year when the

question was fully set forth in our telegram to Your Exceller y

of 24th September, 1908, advised in our letter of 9th October,

1908, with which we forwarded a copy of a letter from the Opium

Merchants in Hongkong dated 23rd September, 1908,

These letters and the enclosures so fully explained

the situation that it does not seem necessary to again go over the ground.

The arguments which were then put forward against the action on the part of the Chinese Officials apply with equal force in the present instance and were practically admitted

by Your Excellency as would appear from the concluding paragraph of your despatch to the Governor of Hongkong dated 5th February, 1909, when you suggested that foreign opium should be excluded

from the regulatione which had been drawn up to control the

wholesale trade.

We trust, therefore, that Your Excellency will be

good enough to again take the matter up with the Wai-Wu-Fu and

with the same happy result that attended your efforts last

Autumn.

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E.A.Hewett.

Chairman.

P.S.- Since writing the above, I have received a letter from the Hongkong Government which gives your cable reply to the Chamber's telegram.

I would ask you to accept the best thanks of the Chamber for your prompt action towards the protection of British trade.

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