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2.
To this letter no reply has been received up
to date from Siem, but on the 18th. October, 1910, M. T.
Funatsu, icting Consul-General for Japan, replied as follows:-
*(1).
(2).
Japanese Government is strictly prohibiting the use of Opium, Lorphine and Compounds of Opium except for medical purposes, and no one, without licence, is allowed to sell, or buy, or possess
chem. All of the dross Opium is burnt by the
Government and no one can obtain it.
Custom Officers are exercising every effort
to prohibit the import and export of (pium, Mor-
-phine, Compounds of (piun and Dross Opium, other than for medical purposes.
(3). As to the particulars of co-operation among
the contracting parties of the Shanghai Opium Con-
-ference in carrying out its resolutions, the Japanese Authorities are of opinion that it would be
better to wait the decision of the coming confer-
which the American Coverment invited the
interested parties, with the purpose to make regulations in order to give full effect to the resolutions of the Shanghai Conference."
3.
→ence,
On the 26th. July, 1910, Lr. S. Fuller,
American Vice-Consul in charge, replied as follows:-
"The Secretary of State of the United States of America notes your statements that the Notifica- -tions in regard to the prohibition of the exporta -tion of Opium from Hongkong are in conformity with and are intended to give effect to the Resolutions of the Shanghai Opium Commission, and your request
that
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