CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7] — Page 442

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H.B.M. Consulate General,“

Canton,

July 20, 1910.

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-TONISVOð gattoå sɗt to nottalɛnsrd gataolone,Instzat .ds81 odt -ong no yvel wen ent tanlaga Jaetong ym of Wigər a’LatoN90–

to vgoo dilwered strenert od wonos ert svad Iœutqo bersq-

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Your Excellency,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your

Excellency's communication of the 17th instant, transmitting a

report by the Opium Prohibition Bureau in connection with a

despatch which I did myself the honour to address to Your

Excellency on the 25th.ultimo.

With regard thereto I would wish in the first place

to point out that all comment on Your Excellency's part is

withheld, the inference being that this matter is entirely in

the hands of the Bureau and does not affect the Provincial

Government. But I would venture to remind Your Excellency that

in my despatch of the 5th. instant I gave warning that it is the

Provincial Government which will be held responsible for action

likely jeopardise the agreement between Great Britain and

China, and that it is therefore enintly their concern to see

that Treaty engagements are fulfilled. It is quibbling with

words to say that opium, in respect of which a receipt was given

on June 10, was actually purchased on June 7, and that therefore

no levy was made at time of purchase. Not only in this particu-

lar case, but in all the other cases, to which I have referred

subasquently, was the payment of the levy concomitant with the

payment of the purchase price, and was handed to the seller at

one and the same time. Customers do not as a rule wait for a

d yone(Isox afHis Excellency Yuan,

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Acting Governor General of the Liang Kuang.

receipt

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