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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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RECR
[March 18.j
Rcc 24 APR 09
SECTION 1.
No. 1.
152
Question asked in the House of Commons, March 18, 1909.
Mr. Rees, To ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the fact that the Indian peasant pays the bill, the Government will exact the clearest and most irrefutable proof that China is purri passu with India reducing her opium cultivation, before India is called upon, to the prejudice of her own revenue and her own taxpayers, to make reductions which, in the absence of such proof, may only result in transferring business from Indian to Chinese growers of the drug.
Answer.
The present arrangement for the progressive restriction of the export of opium from India holds good till the end of 1910. The Chinese Government are aware that the extension of the arrangement will depend on satisfactory evidence being given that production of opium has been correspondingly reduced in China.
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