CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 136

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

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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[32519]

No. 1.

30224

[September 10.]

SECTION 1.

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Foreign Office to Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. and Messrs. D. Sassoon and Co.

Foreign Office, September 10, 1910,

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Sir,

I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that upon the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking was informed by telegraph that the local authorities in Canton still refused to release the opium seized there, and was instructed to bring the matter again to the notice of the Wai-wu Pu.

Mr. Max Müller now reports that he had already renewed his representations against the illegal seizures before the receipt of the above instructions, and that on the 6th instant he addressed a memorandum to the Wai-wu Pa recapitulating all the specific cases brought to his knowledge and pressing for the release of the opium seized.

Mr. Max Müller has also addressed a note to the Chinese Government in which he requested a reply to his original protest against the enforcement of the recent opium regulations at Canton, and deprecated the action of the local officials whilst the general question was under discussion, as being in marked contrast to the generous attitude of His Majesty's Government.

I am, &c.

F. A. CAMPBELL.

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