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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[October 30.]
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[REG£25 NOV 12
SECTION 2.
No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, October 30, 1912.
Sir J. D. Recs,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether an anti- opium law is to be passed at Peking imposing further restrictions upon the opium traffic; and, if so, what instructions have been given to the British Minister in this behalf.
Answer by Mr. Acland (for Sir E. Grey).
His Majesty's Minister at Peking has reported the introduction of a Bill in the National Council, the object of which is to enforce China's domestic laws for the suppression of the cultivation and consumption of opium in China. The Bill has been No instructions on the point appear for the referred back to committee for revision. moment to be necessary, but His Majesty's Minister has been requested to watch the
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