CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 327

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This action on the part of the Japanese renders

it all the more urgently desirable that the opium monopolies of Hongkong and Macao should be likewise abolished, and the

cultivation of the poppy forbidden in the northern states of Burma. The accusations levelled against Japanese traders

in the English press of China have called forth counter accusations and recriminations from the Japanese against the British. No action China may take to deal with the internal traffic can be effective until strict uniform legislation

is adopted by all nations outside, acting in close co-operation.

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J. N. Jordan.