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outlined in the letter under reply include efforts to apply to the above mentioned British Dominions Art. 6 of the Convention prescribing
that the contracting powers "shall take measures for the gradual and effective suppression of the manufacture of, internal trade in, and use of
prepared opium, with due regard to the varying circumstances of each country concerned, unless regulations on the subject are already in
existence."
Chapter III.
This Association is of opinion that the provisions of this Chapter, more especially Arts. 100, 11 and 12, meet with signal disregard in the Colony of Hongkong. The importation and distri-
bution of morphia are controlled in a most unsatis-
factory manner and numerous police court cases
during the last year prove that many persons in
the Colony make their living by the illicit impor- tation and injection of the drug.
Chapter IV.
This Association desires to draw H.M.
Goverment's attention to Art.17 of the Convention.
At the time of signature of the Convention the
smoking of opium was general throughout Chine.
The pari-passu abolition of opium-smoking by the
Chinese in British Colonies could not have con-
stituted a quid pro quo as between H.M. and the
Chinese Governments under the Convention. There
can be no question, however, that H.M. Government
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