CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 112

their exact purport

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In the course of the sume afternoon

I received a visit from the head of the Kuang Yuan Office,

who asked me if I had any amendments to propose b. the

Regulations as they stood because, if so, he was prepared

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to consider them. Seeing that had I proposed any amendment

as suggested a legitimate inference that the rest of the

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text met with my approval could thereafter have been

drawn, I simply informed him that, as the agreemont pururd-

ine opium had been drawn up between the foveinaunts of

Great Britain and China I could not, as a subtrainato,

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say what view the former would take of the regulations

until they had had an opportunity of perusing them 1

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went on to ask him the same questions, which I had direct-

ed Mr. Giles to put to the Opium Prohibition Baresk, ano

in both cuses the answers given were identical. It is poss-

ible that a garbled version of this incident may form the

basis of the report, the accuracy of which Sir Henry May