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the 19th April last will show, the conditions there are peculiar and of a somewhat delicate nature. The province is the seat of a strong anti-opium movement, which bas the support and sympathy of foreign missionary societies, and the Viceroy is probably counting upon this in the resistance which he is offering to the new agreement. But as I have told the Wai-wu Pu, and as they have indicated in their telegraphic instructions to which reference has already been made, the remedy is for the province to qualify for a place on the prohibition list and to refrain from attempts at repression in separate districts until the province as a whole is in a position to make the necessary application.

I have, &c.

J. N. JORDAN.

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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

No. 1.

326

BP2 AUG 1

[July 21.]

SECTION 5.

[Enclosures not printed.]

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Sir,

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received July 21.)

Downing Street, July 20, 1911. WITH reference to the letter from this department of the 6th January and to your reply of the 27th January, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir E. Grey, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, enclosing copies of correspondence with the Government of Macao on the subject of the regulations recently issued by that Government with regard to the import and export of morphia and compounds of opium.

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2. The questiont to which Sir F. Lugard alludes in the second paragraph of his despatch was not explicitly answered in your letter of the 27th January, but Mr. Harcourt presumes that it was considered that the point was covered by the statement that Sir E. Grey agreed with the views expressed by the Board of Trade, and that it was intended to be understood that it was not thought desirable to make any representations to Portugal pending the meeting of the proposed conference.

3. In any case, in view of the correspondence enclosed in Sir F. Lugard's despatch, it would appear now to be unnecessary to take any steps in the matter.

I am, &c.

G. V. FIDDES.

* Not printed.

†T.e., that asked in paragraph 2 of Colonial Office letter of January 6, 1911.

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