CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 101

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Eritish Authorities in China have thwarted some of the most

enlightened Provincial Governors in their projects to es-

tablish an official monopoly of the drug at the open ports

in order to control the consumption. This they have done

because of certain clauses in the Nanking and Tientsin

Treaties, thus depriving the great Empire which is grappling

with this vice, of a right enjoyed and exercised by every

other nation which has to deal with it, and the lack of

which our Ambassador at Peking regards as a serious hindrance

to the success of her efforts.

If this practical outcome of these Articles is legal,

which seems open to question, seeing they are applied to an

import which at the time was contraband, we would urge

We are

that in the interests of fair trade and fair play, orders

should at once be given for their non-enforcement.

aware that the effect of this would probably be to decrease

the sale of British grown and manufactured opium, and bring

about a consequent reduction of the Indian revenue, but we

are persuaded that by thus hastening the end of what our

country has pronounced an "immoral" traffic, the moral up-

list would be of the highest significance and influence both

to ourselves and the Nations of the East.

Malvind