[This document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[38400]
No. 1.
[November 15.]
SECTION 1.
427
(Confidential.)
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received November 15.)
Downing Street, November 14, 1906.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant with regard to a proposed Joint Commission of inquiry into the opium trade and opium habit in the Far East, and to request you to inform Secretary Sir E. Grey that his Lordship concurs in the view expressed by the Secretary of State for India.
I am, &c. (Signed) C. P. LUCAS.
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