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the telegram, I am to say that Lord Morley thinks that

the Chinese Government may be disposed to inform the

Commission that it is satisfied with the arrangement

which has been concluded between it and His Majesty's

Goverment for the progressive restriction of the In-

dian opium trade, and its extinction, pari passu with

the extinction of the cultivation of opium in China,

at the end of ten years. The available evidence goes

to show that the period that has been fixed by the

Chinese Government itself is none too long for the

suppression of the opium habit and opium cultivation

in China; and at the present early stage of the re-

form it would not be fair to India to ask it to revise

in advance of the facts an agreement which already has

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entailed considerable sacrifices on the part of the

public revenues, the native chiefs, and the peoples

of India. If the agreement is to be revised, the

proper stage for revision would be two or three years

hence, when the progress of reform in China could be

more accurately determined than at present.

It might be an advantage if the attitude of the

Chinese Government towards the arrangement already

made

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