CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 298

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

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[June 18.] Rece

SECTION 2.

1 JUL TO

India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received June 18.)

India Office, June 17, 1910. Sir,

WITH reference to previous correspondence regarding the new tax on prepared opium in Canton, I am directed to forward copy of a telegram received from the Government of India, and to suggest that Mr. Max Müller should be asked to supply the necessary information.

am, &c.

Enclosure in No. 1.

J. W. HOLDERNESS.

(Telegraphic.) P.

Government of India to Viscount Morley.

OPIUM. See your telegram of the 15th June.

June 16, 1910.

Please state whether 30 cents per ounce or 30 cents per tael is the actual rate of Canton tax. Difference is serious. The latter is equivalent to rumoured tax of 300 dollars per chest of raw opium, and accords with our private information.

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