CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 470

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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL,

C O 37665

REC

[November 23.]

Reof 9 FC 10

SECTION 1.

[42919]

No. 1.

Question asked in the House of Commons, November 23, 1910.

Sir J. D. Recs,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the representatives of China admitted at the Shanghai Commission that they could produce no statistical proof of the decrease of opium cultivation in the Empire; whether an inquiry has since been made by a British officer into this question ;. and, if so, whether the Secretary of State can communicate the result to the- House.

Answer by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir E. Grey).

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. A British officer has been selected for the purpose of making an enquiry into the question, and he is still travelling in China for the purpose. When he has completed his investigations, the question of making the result public shall be considered.

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