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CHINA TRADE.
C.0. 13969
CONFIDENTIAL.
REC
REG 24 APR 09
No. 1
[7604]
[February 25.]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.--(Received February 25.)
Downing Street, February 24, 1909.
your letters I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of of the 10th and 11th instant, with reference to the restrictions placed upon the sale of opium by the Provincial Government at Canton and by the authorities at Kiangnan, and to request you to inform Sir E. Grey that Lord Crewe concurs in both the replies which it is proposed to send to Sir J. Jordan.
I au, &c. (Signed) R. L. ANTROBUS.
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