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A.
This is becoming a little complicated.
In an endeavour to conform to what they understood to be the policy of the Home Government
as regards supplies of opium to Japanese Territories, the Hong Kong Government adopted the system of refusing authority to tranship opium at Hong Kong except on the production of a Japanese Import Certificate visaed by a British Consul residing near the issuing authority.
This led to protests from the Japanese Government (45075/24) which were recognised to be reasonable; and their request was justabout to be acceded to when the matter was taken up rather violently by the Japanese Delegate at the First Opium Conference in November (55406/24).
Ultimately the matter was settled by an exchange of notes between the delegates to the Conference (57787) by which it was agreed that the Transhipment of opium brought into Hong Kong on through Bills of lading would be allowed, provided a certificate of importation issued by the Competent Japanese authority, or by the Consul General on the instructions of the Competent authority, is produced
in each case.
B.
In the meantime, in order to put the Hong
Kong Government in a better position to deal with the
illicit Traders who were making use of the Colony
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