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# CHINA TRADE.

## CONFIDENTIAL

(21159)

No. 1.

480

[June 19.]

SECTION 1 C.O.

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Question asked in the House of Commons, June 19, 1906.

RECE REG 5 JUL 06

Mr. Sloan,-To ask the Secretary of State for India, whether, in view of the unanimous approval of the Opium Resolution by this House, he can state what action, if any, he proposes to take in the matter.

Answer.

In speaking on this motion, the Secretary of State said His Majesty's Minister at Peking would very shortly be in this country, and we should then be able to learn from him exactly how the proposals and disposition of the Chinese Government stand. The Minister is not yet in this country.

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