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HINA TRADE.
ONFIDENTIAL.
149
[July 6.]
SECTION 2.
No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received July 6.)
India Office, July 5, 1905.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the ceipt of your letter, dated the 8th May, communicating Sir E. Satow's view of the tention of clause 5 of the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention.
In reply, I am to say that Mr. Secretary Brodrick concurs with Lord Lansdowne bat, so long as the provisions of the Article are disregarded, as in the two instances eferred to towards the end of Sir E. Satow's letter, His Majesty's Government should efuse to consider the proposals of the Imperial Government for raising revenue from pium taxation at Canton.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
A. GODLEY.
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