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Hon.Mr. E.A.Hewett,

Hongkong,

29th September, 1909,

Chairman,

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.

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We have the honour to bring to your notice the fact

that the opium regulations that the Kwangtung Authorities

attempted to bring into force last year and which through the

energetic action of R.B.M's Minister were promptly withdrawn,

have again been revived. It is needless to trouble you with a

recital of the details as same are very fully set forth in a

letter to Mr. H.H.Fox, H.B.K's Acting Consul General at Canton

dated the 23rd September, 1908, and to the Colonial Secretary

of Hongkong dated the 9th December, 1908, which appeared in the

report of the Chamber of Commerce for last year. Recently the

Kwangtung Authorities, contrary to the undertaking given by the

Wal-Wu-Pu to H.B.M's Minister, that the Regulations would apply

to native opium only, have taken definite action by imprisoning

a partner in the Chuen Cheong Opium Hong in August last and

subsequently closing up the shop. Mr. H.H.Fox has been

actively engaged in endeavouring to prevent this arbitrary

enforcement of the regulations, but has been unsuccessful and

has had to refer the matter to R.B.M's Minister at Peking.

The Viceroy at Canton in a despatch to Mr. Fox, while ignoring

the various arguments placed before him, states that it is

the duty of, the Chinese Government to carry out the edicts

with the mas utmost energy 'as the Foreign Powers were

unanimous in their sympathetic assistance" and furthermore

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