CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 153

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In any further communication

ca the subject, please quote

No. F 2720/17/10.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

sir,

TREC

60032

FOREIGN OFFICE S.W.1.

ärd December, 1920.

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I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit

to you herewith copies of two despatches received from

His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, forwarding respectively copy of a letter addressed by him to the Committee of the International Anti-Opium Association at Peking, and copy of a reply from the Association, on the

subject of the measures being taken by His Majesty's

Government in connection with the traffic in Opium.

In their letter to Mr Clive of August 31st, 1920,

the Association make the following observations:-

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That His Majesty's Government is not taking satis- factory measures to prevent the export of raw opium to

China;

(2) That no measures have been taken to prevent the

export of raw opium into the leased territory of Kowloon,

'which is a part of China';

(3)

The Association would appreciate the inclusion, in the

statistical information to be communicated by the contrac- ting Powers of the Opium Convention of 1912 to each other, under Article 21 (b) of that instrument, of a list of the "duly authorised persons" permitted under Article 5

to import and export raw opium;

(4),

They wish that measures be taken, in conformity

with Article 6 of the Convention, for the suppression of the manufacture of, internal trade in, and use of prepared opium, by closing down the lucrative farms at Hongkong and Singapore, which they consider, encourage the Macao opium

farm/

The Under-Secretary of State

Colonial office..

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