CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 460

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KOTR OF A COFBENGBROS HELD AT THE FONT OFFICE ON THE 2nd JUNE, 924. CONSIDER WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS SHOULD BE MADE AS TO

TIE POLICY TO BE ADOPTED BY HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AT THE PORTROONIKA INTERNATIONAL CONFER.NOR ON OPIUM SHOKING IN THE FAR EAST

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AL OFFICE

Home Office.

Stab PRESENTA

Sir Malcolm Delevingne,

Mr. Perring

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Mr. Newton

at Canton

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Sir James Jamieson,

Sir Gilbert Grindle Fr. Paskin

H.M.Consul-General

Foreign Office

Mr. Pountney, Financial Advisor to the

= Governments of the Straits

Settlements and Federated Malay States, and Chairman of the Malayan Opium Committee

Mr. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial

Secretary to the Government of Hong Kong and member of the Opium Committee

Colonial Office

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26.6.24 acor

Sir Malcolm Delevingne briefly described the present position. It was agreed that the measures taken in the British Colonies for the control of opium smoking had produced considerable results in the restriction of the practice, but those measures had produced their full effect and matters had come to a standstill and no further progress on these lines was expected. Great Britain, with the other Powers having Far Eastern Territories in which smoking was permitted, was in a position vis-à-vis the League of Nations which it was difficult to defend. Moreover, they were being continually pressed by public opinion in the United States, which has the support of the American Government, to take immediate steps to reduce or to abolish opium smoking in their Far Eastern Territories. In order that the British Government

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