Draft.
ft Instructions to Brit-
ah Delegates to the In-
mational Opium Commis-
Gentlemen:·
ion at Shanghai.
FOREIGN OFFICE,
November
C.O.
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2 DEC 08,
1908.
His Majesty's Government have ap +
pointed you British Delegates to the In-
ternational Commission which has been
convened by the United States Government
to investigate the Opium Trade and Opium
habit in the Far East.
The Commission is to assemble at
February
Shanghai on the 1st. of January 1909,
and will be composed of Delegates of the
following Powers: China, France, Great
Britain, Germany, Japan, Netherlands,
Persia, Portugal, Russia, Siam, and the
Turkey has also been in-
United States.
vited.
As you are aware, on the 20th of
September 1906 a Decree was issued by the
Emperor of China ordering measures to be
framed