CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 558

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resentment mong the masses of the Chinese populations of their territories and would create very serious and (in views of the Governeray) insoluble problems for the Governments concerned;

but also that the adoption of this policy would not carry us a single step further towards the ultimate

total suppression of opium smoking which

is one of the mein objects of the Opium Convention signed at the Hague in

1912.

The only article in the Convention which (it is alleged) is not being carried out in the Far

Eastern Colonies Tesde as follows: –

"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 the regard to the varying circumstances of each

countw concerned.

5. Briefly my view is that (1) the policy advocated by the Home Office does not pay that regard for the local circumstances of the Far Eastern

Colonies, and Protectorates

which

is contemplated by the Gonvention; (2) Át is in direct opposition to the

very strongly expressed views of the Governors, who have been assisted in arriving at their conclusions by the

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