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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[9438]
No. 1.
627
[April 4.]
SECTION
J
C.O.
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Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Fees
19 APR 07,
Foreign Office, April 4,'1907. WITH reference to recent correspondence, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking,* inclosing correspondence with the Acting British Consul at Chinkiang relative to the attitude to be adopted by the latter with regard to co-operation with the local Chinese in measures for suppressing the opinm shops or dens in the British Concession at that port.
Sir E. Grey proposes to convey to Sir J. Jordan his concurrence in the view that it would be desirable that the Municipal Councils of all British Concessions and Settlements should be moved to close any opium shops or dens that may exist in them even before His Majesty's Consuls are approached on the subject by the Chinese authorities, subject, however, to the proviso that effective measures have been previously taken by the latter to close establishments of this nature outside the Concessions.
Sir E. Grey will be glad to learn if a communication to Sir J. Jordan on these lines would have the concurrence of Mr. Secretary Morley, or whether he would suggest any addition or modification.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
* Sir J. Jordan, No. 78, March 23, 1907.
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F. A. CAMPBELL.