CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 165

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H. B. M. Consulate-General,

Canton, 6th. October, 1910.

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Having reference to your telegram No. 19

of yesterday's date with regard to the concessions, which,

according to the Wai Wu Pu, the Acting Governor-General is

prepared to make in the matter of the recently instituted pre-

-pared opium regulations, I have the honour to state that I am

making enquiries on the lines indicated, the result of whinh I

shall report by telegraph.

In the meantime the accompanyijggsummary

of charges of contravention of Treaty so far brought, and of the

Chinese replies thereto, may prove useful. It will be noted

that in no instance is the issue, as to interference with Opium

under Transit Certificate, a clear one. There are always

cade extraneous complications. The one apparently clear one, that

of the seizure at Swatow, now, however, submitted through this

office, was promptly dealt with by orders of the Acting Governor

General. The opium was at once released, and His Excellency

explained to me personally that it was a mistake due to over

zeal on the part of insufficiently instructed subordinates.

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In the longɗ course or discussion

and written which has arisen out of this question, it has

become more than plain to me that the Chinese standpoint differs

toto coelo from our own, and that they consider the position, which they have taken up, namely that a policy of opium

suppression is incompatible with a free distribution of imm

-ported opium, as logically unassailable.

Perhaps it may not be without pertinence if

I endeavour to give a synopsis of the respective views of both parties, and to show their bearing on the present controversy.

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