§ MR. BRIGHT (Oldham)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, if the Chinese were to give notice of the termination of the Cheefoo Convention in order to get rid of the obligation to admit Indian opium, they would still be prevented from excluding it by the Treaty of Tientsin.
§ MR. RUNCIMAN (for Sir EDWARD GREY)Section 7 of the additional Article of the Chifu Agreement provides that in the event of the termination of the additional Article the arrangement with regard to opium under the regulations attached to the Treaty of Tien-tsin revives—namely, import duty, thirty taels per picul, with transit dues to be arranged as the Chinese Government shall see fit.