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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA TRADE,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[36691]
No. 1.
[October 12.]
SECTION 1.
Foreign Office to Messrs. E. D. Sassoon."
Gentlemen,
WITH reference to the letter from this department of the 27th July last, I amı
Foreign Office, October 12, 1909. directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that a report has now been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking in regard to your protest against the enforcement of certain new regulations for the suppression of opium at Soochow.
Sir John Jordan states that he has already had his attention drawn to the matter, and had authorised His Majesty's consul at Nanking to point out to the Chinese- authorities there that foreign opium must be excluded from the operation of any regulations made applicable to the wholesale trade in opium.
This attitude coincides with that adopted in the case of Canton, as stated in the letter above referred to, and is in accordance with the line of policy which is being pursued by Ilis Majesty's Government in the case of the enforcement of all new opium licensing regulations within the Chinese Empire.
I am,
&c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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* Also to Messrs. D. Sassoon, mutatis mutandis.
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