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H.B.M. Consulate-General,
Cayton, 18th October,
1909.
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Your Excellency,
I have the honour to refer to previous corres-
pondence on the subject of the measures adopted by the pro-
vincial authorities for the control and sale of opium, and to
inform Your Excellency that I have received telegraphic
instructions from His Majesty's Minister again to make strong
representations with a view to determining the present unsatie-
factory condition of affairs at Canton, in so far as the sale
of foreign opium is concerned.
My predecessor's despatch of September 24 tra-
versos certain statements made by the Opium Bureau and I should
like to add a few remarks of my own with regard to their report,
which was transmitted in Your Excellency's communication of
September 17, 1909.
Paragraph 2 states that the late Governor General
ordered all shope to take out licences. It is a fact that a
proclamation to this effect was issued but, owing to inter-
vention on the part of His Majesty's Minister the same was not
were informer that they could go on enforced, and the sealers postter contidued to conduct their
business as before. Hence the latter are quite justified in
asserting that no warning was given to them and that the
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7. Governor General of the Liang Kuang.
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