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Gentlemen,

H. B. M. Consulate-General,

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Canton, 3rd. May, 1910.

I am in receipt of your letter of the 2nd. instant, and have to ** thank you for the enclosures therein

contained.

A perusal thereof confirms me in my opinion that the proposed tax is a non-differential one on prepared opium, directed against smokers, and that being so, I confess That I am unable to see in what manner British interests are adversely affected. Whether the tax is paid by foreign raw opium in bulk or in detail, prior to its being boiled down, is surely immaterial, inasmuch as, equally with native opium, it has to bear the incidence of the levy on purchase by the pre- -pared opium dealers.

essrs. David Sassoon & Co., Id.,

Hongkong.

I am ete.f,

(sd.) J. W. Jamieson,

Consul-General.