§ Colonel YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he was able to state what precautions have been taken under the opium treaty with China, signed on the 8th inst., to prevent opium from other countries, such as Persia, etc., reaching China while the supply from India is being stopped?
§ Mr. MONTAGUIn connection with the Agreement of 1907 for restricting the export of opium from India, the Chinese1806W Government undertook to reduce progressively the import of Persian and Turkish opium into China and to extinguish it by 1917. The measures taken to this end by the Imperial Maritime Customs are described in Mr. Councillor Leach's General Report on the Opium Question in China, presented to Parliament in October, 1908. The Secretary of State understands that these measures are still in force.