CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 358

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further communication should be

ASSISTANT SECRETARY, pour sa given opposite.

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Telegraphic Address: ELASTA, PARL, LONDON.

hone No.: 3840 Victoria.

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BOARD OF TRADE

(COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES

DEPARTMENT),

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

15th Dooomber, 1920.

sir,

with_referonco to your letter of the 3rd December ("/720/17/10), and onclosures, regarding the attitude of the international anti-Opium Association at fekin on the subject of the measures being taken by His Lajesty's Government in connootion with the traffic in oplum, I am dizocted by the Board of rade to state that the majority of the points mentioned in faragraph ? of your lotter uppoar to relate to mattere in which the Board are not ̄àirectly concerned.

With regard to (1) and (P), the Boari consider that the action which is Lajesty's Government is taking to prevent the export of opium otc. from this country to China and the far Last was adequately dealt with in the communication addressed by ir. Clive to the Association on the 6th August last. As Lord Ourson is aware, the Board are fully in sympathy with the arrangements which are boia made with foreign Governments for the exporta- tion from this country of the drugs in question to be restricted to o:ses in which those Governments are prepared to guarantee that each consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal and scientific purposes and will not be re-exported. Moreover, the Board have suggested to the India Offios and the Colonial Office respectively the desirability of extomling this system to India and to Dominions, Colonies and Protectorates. It appears to the Board that the assertion of the Association that dis Lajesty's Government is not taking all steps that might be taken to provent the export of these druge to Chine, is directed against the

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