CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9] — Page 580

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Reply by the Viceroy

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Your petition has been noted. The French

merchant, Sales, imported into Canton foreign opium without

reporting to the prepared licence office, which is against

the regulatións issued by the Anti-Opium Burmu, but Canton is

a Treaty port and according to the Chefoo Convention, foreign

merchants are allowed to import and trade in raw opium, and

I have no right to step them. But if foreign merchants have no

licences and import raw opium into Canton without reporting the

quantity and sales, it will be very hard to know where the opium has gone to, and I am afraid more foreigners will follow

this example, and it will be a great hindrance to the policy

of suppressing opium. I instruct you to suggest some regulations

to deal with foreign merchants importing raw opium, that is to

say, they should be allowed to sell only to those who hold

licences and to no others. You are to submit me these regula,

-tions quickly so that I will be able to notify all the Consuls

to inform their merchants accordingly.

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