[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
OPIUM.
RECE (REGE 21 Arm 10 [April]
CONFIDENTIAL.
[12347]
No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, April 7, 1910.
Mr. Rees-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a riot has taken place in the Shansi province as a result of the measures taken by the Chinese Government to prevent the recultivation of opium in land previously under the poppy; and whether trustworthy information reaches the Government regarding the feeling of the Chinese cultivators, as well as of the Chinese Government, regarding the present policy being pursued by the latter Government in concert with His Majesty's Government.
Answer.
No official information has reached me of the riot in question. We have no special information with regard to the manner in which the question is viewed by the farmers, though we have beard that the suppression of the industry has met with considerable opposition in some places.
[2719 g-1]
521
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.