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COPY.
No.29.
H.B.M. Consulate General,
Canton, August, 18, 1910.
367
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As I had the honour to report to you by telegraph
this morning I have had a long talk with the head of the Opium Prohibition Bureau, Hsu Taot'al, who came in company with two of the Acting Governor General's foreign secretaries to clear up what were termed misunderstandings.
According to them, the various cases of seizure and interference with transit pass opium, which I have had occasion to bring to His Excellency Yüan's notice, have arisen out of the fact that those, in whose charge it was, were not holders of the requisite permits, authorising them to handle opium, and proceedings were taken against them on that ground. Against this principle, that the officials can say who shall & who shall not handle opiu and under what conditions, I could
It was once more reiterated not see my way to raise objection. that raw opium was exempt from the levy and that the time limit of ten days within which to boil down was only to commence on arrival at destination, which might conceivably mean thirty
Stress was laid on the
days after leaving Treaty port of entry. necessity of keeping a careful check on all imports, as in the matter of opium the Cantonese standard of fair dealing in
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W. G. Max Muller, Esq.,M«V«Q•,
His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires,
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