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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.

тра

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has withdrawn her objections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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