CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 578

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a self-contained Colony with easier finansial conditions affords no parallel.

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impossible with present attitude of China as a result of which muggling into Malaya cannot be effectively controlled and immigrant Chinese arrive addicted to the epium habit."

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The first part of the telegram refers to a proposal put forward by the United States Goverment that the Conference should accept the principle that no State should draw any revenue from the control of opium beyond the expenses incident to the exercise of the control. second part of the telegram refers to the suggeste dissociation of the opium revenues from the general revenues of the Celonies.

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