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Hongkong, 27th July, 1910.

0.0lementi Esq.,

Assistant Colonial Secretary.

sir,

We have just been informed by the local dealers that

the new Kwangtung oplum tax and regulations have been enforced

at Swatow, and that several balls of raw opium bearing the

Custom's transit passes have been seized at the Likin station in

"Ket Yung" Fort, owing to the refusal on the part of the pur-

chasers to pay the illegal tax. Such a procedure is a flagrant

violation of treaty bights, and we trust the British Government

will no longer allow the Kwangtung Government to continue

violating the Treaty with impunity.

We are also informed that the Kwong Yuen Co. have

GXBXRİNE Oxcise officers stationed near the raw opium dealers'

shops to prevent customers from buying without payment of the

tax.

We have etc,

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