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PEKING,

September 28th, 1910.

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Your Highness:-

I have the honour to invite Your Highness' most

serious attention to a further case of illegal seizure

of foreign opium conveyed under transit pass which has

occurred at Canton, the actual seat of the Viceroy of

the Liang Kuang provinces.

The facts of this case, which have been telegraphi-

cally communicated to me by the Governor of Hongkong,

are as follows:-

On the 21st instant the Shun Yi Shiu shop at Canton

purchased from Messrs. Sassoon and Company five chests

of Patna and six chests of Malwa Opium. Full duty and

likin was paid on this opium by the purchasers, who in-

tended to convey the opium to the province of Kiangsi

for sale. The Kuangyun Office however refused to per-

mit the opium to leave Canton without payment of the new

tax, and the opium chests are now detained in Canton.

I have the honour to remind Your Highness that this

Lov.

Prince Ch'ing,

&c.,

&C.

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