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that this end might be attained without imposing a levy on prepared

opium towards the composition of which in a Treaty Port, foreign

opium contributes 99%. Of what else could one expect it to be

composed was the retort, seeing that, as she has undertaken to do,

China is using all means in her power to get rid of native opium?

(His Excellency thus unconsciously came very near to the supposi-

tions case I put to the representative of Messrs.Sassoons, who

came to Canton to discuss the matter with me, when I asked: could

Great Britain refuse to entertain a request on the part of China

ixx to reconsider the ten years agreement after every stalk of

poppy had been eradicted from Chinese soil) I then hinted that

the levy was not xxx so much a restrictive measure as a financial

makeshift, and suggested that, an abolition of the levy, even if

the rules laid down continued to be enforced, would go a long

way towards proving bona fides. This aspect of the situation was

a new one to His Excellency, and his only answer was that there

were difficulties in the way.

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It came out in the course of the interview that His

Excellency was totally unaware of the existence of Turkish and Persian Opium, the supplies of which have doubtless swelled the import returns, and the point arises, how can China limit the importation of these two forme of opium, (v.China No.1. 1908 No.29, 3rd paragraph) if in the hands of subjects of the Treaty Powers, seeing that the Treaties do not deal with the nationality of goods, but only with that of the holder thereof?

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(ad) J.W.Jamieson.

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