CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 527

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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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[July 4.]

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SECTION 3.

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No. 1.

Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 4.)

RECO Prof 19 AUG 10

(No. 198.) Šir,

Peking, June 16, 1910. WITH reference to your telegram No. 37 of the 5th March last authorising me to agree to the request of the Chinese Government that steps might be taken by the foreign representatives to prohibit the importation of cocaine into China, and its manufacture in this country by their nationals, on the ground that it threatened to become a substitute for opium, even inore dangerous in effect than morphia, T now have the honour to transmit for your approval draft King's regulations, entitled "The Cocaine Prohibition Regulations," drawn up in the same terms as "The Morphia Prohibition Regulations," which formed the enclosure to your despatch No. 30 of the 27th January, 1908.

At the last meeting of the diplomatic body some of my colleagues had not yet received the consent of their respective Governments to the proposed prohibition, and I should naturally not issue the King's regulations until the consent of all the foreign Governments concerned had been secured.

I have, &c.

W. G. MAX MÜLLER.

Enclosure in No. 1.

Draft King's Regulations.

CHINA.

Notice.

THE following regulations made by His Majesty's chargé d'affaires, and allowed by the Secretary of State, are published for general information.

Peking,

1910.

KING'S REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 155 OF "THE CHINA AND COREA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1904.”

No.

of 1910.

Prohibition of the Importation and Manufacture of Cocaine.

Whereas His Britannic Majesty's Government have agreed with the Chinese Government that it is desirable to regulate the importation and manufacture of cocaine into and in China;

And whereas measures for the said regulations have been agreed to by all other treaty Powers;

It is hereby ordered as follows :—

1. On and after

any British subject importing into China cocaine

or instruments for the injection of cocaine, except in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 11 of the treaty of the 5th September, 1902, for the importation of

[2812 d-3]