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H.B.M. Consulate General,“
Canton,
July 20, 1910.
to 8) .oй dotsqɛob yu od sonetoter gulvsä
-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.
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