Mr. Chu Chao-hsin (after hearing the remarks made by the British Delegate) said that the drugs in question were a very small quantity compared with the quantity smugfgled into China. The Chinese Government had issued an official certificate and resumed the responsibility for admitting these drugs. The certificate was final and not. open to question. For another Government to question it was an'
cement of China's sovereignty. Great Britain had issued import certificates for very quantities of raw opium for manufacturing morphine and other dangerous drugs far exceeding her own, done well by concluding the Mosul Agreement, and I do not think their stock is deteriorating. Moreover, we are keeping up the value of the sterling despite the difficulty jeansed by the fall of the franc, which affects our finances material ly. Accordingly, I do not think that.
thing considered, the outlook: jis particularly bad even despite the coal strike. medical needs. He would refer this connexion to the Opium Wac, 'a3 a result of which China waa compelled to take opium from England. He was referring to historical facts in reply to the attack which had ben made upon his country. China had suffered very much from foreign interference which wan almost intolerable. Even in regard fo, a small amount of drags imported into China authorized by the Chinese Government and imported from Germany, with which China had an official agreement for such importation, China was subject to interference which was quite unjustified, British Minister's Protest fe was unaware that the British Minister in Peking had protested against the consignment question and he would ask by what right this protest had been made. Tt was based on a misinterpretation of the Treaty which would very shortly cease to exist, Ching had been able to manage her own for 4,000 years and was "She had suffered reign interference infringement of China's The International opium Association in Poking was directed virtually by one man, who had forwarded letter against which he had protested. This man was an Englishman, who had helped to interfere with Chines Government affairs. Was there any call for surprise that the Chinese people should be having an anti-British feeling? He could as the public and the members the Committee that foreign interference in China's domestic affairs would no longer be tolerated.
The debate was ended by the irterval for
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.