CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 77

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suggest that the telegram should be communicated to

Sir Clementi Smith and to Sir Alexander Hosie for

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their information, with such observations as Sir Ed-

ward Grey may think fit to make.

With regard to the first of the two questions mentioned in the telegram, I am to say that though

the Commission will doubtless wish to inform itself

as to the regulations in force in India for restrict-

ing the consumption of opium in that country, and to compare them with the practice of other countries,

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may be disposed to recognize that purely domestic regulations of this kind have no bearing on the ques- tion of opium traffic in the Far East, and that it is not called upon to pronounce upon their sufficiency. The British delegates will be able to show that the Indian regulations are the result of much thought and care, and it may be remarked that in their application to Burma they were favourably commented on by the American Commissioner, who in 1905 investigated for the Government of the United States the opium ques-

tion in the East.

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