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Hongkong.
Officially in Hong Kong, and (6.) because China is Making extraordinary efforts many provinces, with & the ardent support of all the best men in Chine, to put down opium smoking. To publish a docume with governement authority, on her borders, which if time, would make all these efforts quite ridiculous is plamily indefensible, unless one is satisfied the on indisputable of evidence that the conclusions in the document are true.
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My Lord,
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Government House,
Hongkong, 28th. April, 1910.
With reference to paragraph 2 of
my Confidential Despatch of the 24th. of November, 1908,
I have the honour to forward herewith six copies of a
report by Mr. Frank Browne, dated the 18th. ultimo on
"Some Constituents of Opium Smoke", with an appended minute
by Dr. Atkinson, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, dated
the 19th. idem, stating that the report by the Government
Analyst proves conclusively to his mind that tobacco
smoking is a greater evil than opium smoking.
Colonel Seely
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If Your Lordship concurs in my
view that this paper is a valuable scientific contribu-
-tion to the impartial study of the Opium Question,
I
would request Your Lordship's permission to lay it on the
table of the Legislative Council, and I venture to point
out that it would appear to be less than fair to Mr. C.
Clementi not to lay upon the table at the same time his
Memorandum
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE,
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