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Peking, August 20, 1910.

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sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

despatches of the 2nd and 5th instant in regard to the enforcement

of the Kuangtung Opium Regulations at Swatow. I have again brought

to the notice of the Chinese Government the manner in which the

additional tax is being levied there and have stated that, if the

procedure described in the letter from the Swatow raw opium dea-

lers to the Hongkong dealers is correct, in my opinion it un-

questionably constitutes a tax on raw opium. As you are aware,

on July 29 I protested against the seizure of several balls of

opium covered by transit passes at the likin station of Ketyung

Fort, Swatow. On the 16th instant I renewed my representations

to the Wai Wu Po, pointing out that up to August 4 the opium had

not been released although the Viceroy at Canton was believed to

have reprimanded the Authorities at Swatow for action taken there.

The Wai Wu Pu raprox repeated their assertion and there had been

no breach of the Treaty but that the Chinese dealer had been

guilty of a breach of the Regulations.

As I have already informed Your Excellency in my

telegram of August 9, I made a strong protest both verbally and in

writing against the illegal proceedings of the Chinese Authorities

at Samshui and Suntong. The Wai Wu Pu promised to call at once

for a report and as the promised information had not arrived, I

renewed my representations in regard to this incident on August

I pointed out that, so far as I was aware the opium had

not been released not the fine remitted. I stated that British

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is Excellency,

Sir F.H.May, K.C.M.G.,

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&c. &c. Hongkong.

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