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Enclosure No. 4.
H.B.. CUI SULATE GENERAL,
CANTON,
October 30th, 1928.
His Excellency
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of our Excellency's despatch No.241 of the 24th October stating that several of the persons alleged to be members of the "ing Hung" opium. combine have been traced in Hong Kong and asking for particulars of the Chinese or Consular Law or Regulation which they have broken.
Your Excellency does not say whether the persons traced are of British or Chinese nationality or whether they are the supercargoes who travelled on the ship, in Chinese waters or the owners who directed operations from Hong Kong. Until these facts are known it is impossible to say what particular law, British or Chinese, has been broken.
The following are some of the enactments relating to the opium trade in China.
1. Dealings in narcotics by persons subject to British jurisdiction in China are prohibited by Kings Regulation No.1 of 1924, known as "The Narcotics Prohibi- tion Regulations 1924". According to article 4 (5) of "The China Order in Council 1925", British jurisdiction
The Officer Administering the Government,
extends
Hong Kong.
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