[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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13. The expression, the parties, hereto of the first part, where used throughout this agreement, shall mean and include all the parties whose signatures appear at the end under the heading, "The parties hereto of the first part."
As witness the hands of the parties hereto, the day and year first above written.
The parties hereto of the first part:
David Sassoon and Co. (Limited):
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Malwa. Bengal.
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E. SHELLIM
5
8
E. D. SASSOON AND CO. (LIMITED) S. J. David and Co. :
134
ARCHIBALD DAVID
26
48
E. PABANEY
36
40
CAWASJEE, PALLANJEE, and Co. ABDOULALLY, EBRAHIM AND CO.
71
36
14
30
(Confidential.) Sir,
ARRATOON V. APCAR AND Co....
37
H. M. H. NEMAZEE
139
56
R. Ho Tung per HO_WING
48
M. H. E. Ellias per R. A. DASTUR Lau Tak Po:
28
45
By his attorney LAU IU CHUNG
5
319
487
319
Total
806
No. 1.
162
[February 7.]
SECTION 1.
Governor Sir F. May to Mr. Bonar Law. (Received at Foreign Office February 7, 1916.)
[With reference to Colonial Office letter of January 19, 1916.]
Hong Kong, December 14, 1915. IN continuation of my despatch, Confidential, of the 30th November, 1915, I have the honour to transmit copy of a letter from His Majesty's acting consul-general at Canton on the subject of the Canton Opium Syndicate.
I have, &c.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
F. H. MAY.
Signed by all parties hereto of the first part in the presence of:
HERBERT W. LOOKER.
(L.S.)
[In Chinese characters.] (The Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kwangtung's specially appointed Envoy Tsai Nai Huang.)
Signed by the Envoy in the presence of:
SIN TAK FAN.
Interpreted to the Envoy by:
WONG KWONG WAI, his interpreter.
Acting Consul-General Wilton to Governor Sir F. May.
(No. 157.) Sir,
Canton, December 7, 1915. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge with thanks your despatch No. 141, Confidential, of the 4th December, enclosing copy of a despatch addressed to the Secretary of State for, the Colonies on the subject of the Canton Opium Syndicate.
In reference to the statement in paragraph 8 of Mr. Hutchison's report, which formed an enclosure to the despatch, I have the honour to remark that General Lung informed me in conversation a few days ago that the sales were not going well and attributed this to the anti-craving medicine which was mixed with the drug and gave it an unpopular. flavour. It is more likely, however, that the falling off in demand has been caused by the adulteration and mixture of inferior opium so that the article offered by the syndicate is unable to compete with the lower prices of native and uncertified Indian opium illicitly brought into the province.
I have the honour to enclose copy of my despatch No. 91 of the 19th October, addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.
I have, &c.
E. C. WILTON.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
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Sir,
Acting Consul-General Wilton to Sir J. Jordan,
Canton, October 19, 1915.
I HAVE the honour to forward herewith copy of an agreement signed on the 1st October between Ts'ai Nai-huang and the Hong Kong Opium Combine.
It will be remembered that an agreement was signed at Shangliai between Ts'ai Nai-huaug and the Shanghai Opium Combine on the 1st May last to which the Hong Kong Combine adhered. That agreement provided for the free circulation of Indian opium within the three provinces of Kianga, Kiangsi, and Kwangtung in return for a payment to the Chinese Government of a voluntary surtax of 3,500 dollars a chest. Previous to the date of the agreement, the Hong Kong Combine had been contributing to the privy purse of the military governor a sum of 600 dollars a chest on all Indian opium imported into the province through the regular channels. The sales, however, had fallen off owing to the stronger inducements held out to General Lung and his military satellites by the traffic in Yunnan opium, and, as far as the province of Kwang- tung and the Hong Kong Combine were concerned, the agreement did not work satisfactorily owing to the competition with the certified drug of native (Yunnan) and uncertified Indian opium smuggled into the province from Maçao, Kwangchowwan, and Tongking.
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