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explain to the Cabinet what taxation there is in the Straits Settlements and the rest of Malaya. If I remember rightly it was stated at the Conference in my room that the tax tion is anything
but heavy.
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As
Para 43 is open to the same criticism as paragraph 17.
growing at that China had not emerged from opium smoking and opium date it seems decidedly misleading to say that it was not foreseen that
she would relapse.
Further on, the sentence beginning "In the meantime
in countries" seems to me to say far more than there is any justification or evidence for. Why should evil result from trying to prohibit and penalise the practice amongst Chinese in countries outside China, when
at least in one Chinese province the practice has been successfully suppressed with the best results by an honest and capable Governor? How about publishing now the reports of the Hong Kong and Malaya Committees? There is nothing apparently to be gained by holding them up any longer. Ought you not also to publish the letter of the 30th May from the North Borneo Company and the morandum enclosed therewith? I notice that they did not send you the report of the Commissioner, but I should think that ought to be published too.
Yours sincerely.
malcoter Delevingne
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