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Gentlemen,

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 25th. August, 1910.

With reference to my letter No. 1 in 6854/08

of the 23rd. instant, I am directed to forward for your informa-

-tion the enclosed copy of a despatch, dated the 18th. instant, which has been addressed by His Britannic Majesty's Consul- „General at Canton to His Majesty's Charge ́d'Affaires at

Peking.

2.

From it you will gather that the Opium Prohibition Bureau informed Mr. Jamieson at a personal interg

-view that the opium in question was seized, not because it

had not paid the new levy nor because it was found in transit, but because of certain infractions of established regulations

committed by those who had charge of it. In the opinion of the

Consul-General as conveyed to His Excellency the Officer

Administoring the Goverment in a letter dated the 24th; instant, it *** is for you to prove the contrary, and, unless

you are able to do so, Mr. Jamieson states that he does *not

Chinese subjects propose to interfere with the punishment of for transgressing the laws of their own country."

I have etc.,

(sd.) A. H. Thomson,

Messrs. David Sassoon and Company, Limited.

Colonial Secretary.