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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[October 22.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 22.)
Downing Street, October 20, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 9th instant, I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, copy of a telegram from the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, on the subject of the proposed representation of the Commonwealth on the Opium Commission.
2. Lord Crewe will be glad if the suggestion made by the Government of the Commonwealth can be brought to the notice of the Government of the United States. He is forwarding a copy of this telegram to the Governor-General of Canada, for the information of his Ministers.
3. Lord Crewe presumes that in accordance with the telegram of which a copy was inclosed in the letter from this Office of the 10th instant, steps will be taken to notify to the Government of the United States the nomination of Mr. Mackenzie King to be one of the Representatives of His Majesty's Government at the Con- ference as soon as His Majesty's Government have decided to concur in his nomination.
I am, &c. (Signed) C. P. LUCAS.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Governor-General Earl Dudley to the Earl of Crewe.
[Received October 15, 1908.] (Telegraphic.)
REFERRING to your telegram of the 24th September, Opium Commission, Australian Federation do not intend to send Delegate to the Commission, but a report showing what has been done in Australia with regard to prohibition of importation of Government suggest for con- smoking opium will be furnished at an early date. sideration at the Conference subject of reserving exclusively to the Government of each country the right of cultivation and manufacture of opium to be used for purely medicinal purposes, and absolutely prohibiting under heavy penalties all private enterprise in connection with the production of the drug,
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