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with me that it would be the height of

folly, so far as Hong Kong is concerned, to

do more at this stage, than to bind itself

to the complete prohibition of the use of

opium in the Colony so soon as China has

show to the satisfaction of an

International Commission that she has

permanently ceased to grow it on any

considerable scale.

18.

Se satisfied is the Hong Kong

Government that the Colony has gone as

far as it is safe to go in the matter

of the control of opium smoking, that

the officer who has been sent home as the

representative of that Government at the

Conference in November, has suggested

that the League of Nations should be invited to send out to the Far East an

independent Commission, consisting of

(say) an unprejudiced American and a

Frenchman to examine the problem on the

spot, and to visit not only British

territories but also those of France,

Netherlands and Portugal as well as Sian

and the Phillippines. If the Governments

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of the other countries would not agree,

Hong Kong would be prepared if necessary

to pay the entire expenses of such

commission.

19.

I commend this suggestion to the

careful consideration of my colleagues, as

an indication of the good faith of the

Hong Kong Government.

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