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not under our consideration.
597
dated the 28th October 1885, which forms
any
a-n
enclos
scheme for restricting the export
of opium from India to ships carrying any particular flag.
3.
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We forward, however, a copy of correspondence, detailed in the accompanying list,
a
regarding scheme submitted by M. J.J. Keswick with a view to facilitate
the collection of the Chinese duty
On
opium under the new
in
Article; in
a
suggestion
Opium
that correspondence
was
made that opium
should be exported from India
under
the Chinese flag only; that suggestion has not
our approval;
beg to state, with reference
to the letter from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Pekin, No. 441,
dated
the 28th October 1885, and to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 12, dated the 11th February 1886, that we have been awaiting the scheme which it was understood would be submitted in London.
A proposals in Sir R. Hart's Memorandum 31st October 1885, and the Foreign Office instructions enclosed in Your Lordship's Despatches No. 12 and 29,
dated the 11th February and 2nd March 1886, respectively, supersede the schemes
submitted by Messrs.
We understand that the
ary
Keswick and Lister, and that
the opinion called for in Your Lordship's Despatch 2nd March is not required,
as
4
Germany
has withdrawn her objections
to
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