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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[13873]
No. 1.
14957
[April 214
SECTION 1.
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, April 21, 1911. Sir,
SIR E. GREY has had under his consideration you letter of the 20th ultimo, forwarding a transcript of a proclamation issued by the Canton local authorities with regard to the enforcement of certain supplementary regulations on the opium question recently issued in that city. These regulations, the list of which has already been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, do not appear to have actually been put into force, and it is possible that they may be withdrawn, if the negotiations which are now proceeding at Peking with regard to the opium question generally are brought
to a successful issue.
Sir E. Grey, however, desires me to point out that His Majesty's Government find it increasingly difficult, in the face of the undoubtedly genuine movement against opium in China, and the wide spread sympathy which that movement has excited in this and very different other countries, to stand out for the literal observance of treaties made in circumstances when China was a consenting party to a policy of unlimited domestic production, and unlimited import, of the drug.
I have, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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