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JUL 12
[June 11.
SECTION 1,
Question asked in the House of Commons, June 11, 1912.
Sir J. D. Rees,To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Chinese republic has yet formally adopted the obligations of the late Imperial Chinese Government in respect of the discontinuance of the growth of the poppy?
Ansicer.
The present Government in China is only a provisional Government, and as such has not yet made any official declaration of its intention to assume the obligations of We have received assurances that the Chinese Govern- the late Imperial Government. ment will do its utmost to enforce the suppression of the cultivation and smoking of opium, but at present that Government has not effective control of the cultivation in many of the provinces of China.
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