CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914 — Page 287

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Memorial on the Sale of Opium

in British Crown Colonies & Protectorates.

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The Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends

in Great Britan

attention of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the need of stringent legislation for limiting to medical we the sale of opium

Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, and British North Borneo.

now assembled in London, desires to call the

The resolute action of the Chinese Governement in suppressing

the opium trade, notwithstanding the important revencer derived therefrom, and the great peculiary interests involved, has been recognised by the British Government, which has, repeatedly expressed its desire to co-operate with China in this great reform. By the Heaque Opium Convention, in the framing of which the British delegates took a sabreable share, the signatory Powers are -pled god. to a policy of prohibition except for medical user

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In view of these considerations, we would respectfully. that the British Government cannot, without serious

injury its reputation and to the highest interests of thous for whom it is responsible, show itself less corefiel of the social, moral, and physical well being of the Chinese residents in Hong Kong and Malaya then the whinge Government has shown itself with

regeered to those resident within its jurisdiction.

:Signed on behalf & by direction of the surd Meeting.

John St. Karlow)

Devonshire House

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136 Bishopsgate; London 6.6.

28th of 55 month. 1914.