CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11] — Page 407

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imprisonment of one of their number and the closing of his premises was quite unwarrantable.

Paragraph 3 asserts that ten or more of the raw opium shops were obeying the regulations. Such is not the case. The opium hongs never agreed to the permit system and were all along selling to buyers without permite. The Bureau's contention that the regulations in no way concern foreigners cannot, I feel sure, be endorsed by Your Excellency, as Your Excellency must be aware that the Chinese Government have let it be clearly understood that they had no intention of interforing with the wholesale trade in foreign opium. Vexatious restrictions, therefore, which result in the complete dislocation of such trade are contrary to the assurances given by the Imperial Government, and the enforce- ment thereof might not unreasonably be construed as a breach of faith.

I have accordingly the honour earnestly to request that Your Excellency, in the interests of the friendly relations existing between our two countries, will take immediate steps to put a stop to this unwarrantable interference with British trade, and to set at liberty the dealer Liang Chih Hou of the Ch'uan Fu Ch'ang hong who was some time ago arrested at the instance of the Opium Prohibition Bureau.

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