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16 JUN !!
[May 13.]
SECTION 2.
No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received May 13.)
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(No. 125.)
(Telegraphic.) R.
Peking, May 13, 1911.
YOUR telegram No. 83 of 11th May: Opium. According to available evidence, the value of native opium is approximately two-thirds of foreign opium, and tax of 230 taels was fixed on this basis.
Memorial to the Throne by the Minister of Finance and the Imperial rescript, of which I have sent you copies, explicitly stated that the tax will be levied on production, and telegraphic instructions have been sent in this sense to the Viceroys and governors.
(Addressed to Foreign Office; repeated to India.)
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