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The rise and progress of British opium smuggling : the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug, and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain. Five letters addressed to the right honourable Earl of Shaftesbury / by Major-General R. Alexander.

Contraband opium traffic : the disturbing element in all our policy and diplomatic intercourse with China / by Major-General Alexander.

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Alexander, Robert, -1879.

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The rise and progress of British opium smuggling : the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug, and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain. Five letters addressed to the right honourable Earl of Shaftesbury / by Major-General R. Alexander.

Contraband opium traffic : the disturbing element in all our policy and diplomatic intercourse with China / by Major-General Alexander.