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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