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CHINA TRADE.
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No. 1.
[July 12.]
SECTION 1.
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(No. 194.) Sir,
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 12.)
Peking, May 26, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a note from the Wai-wu Pu, in which they express their appreciation of the admirable work performed by the Opium Commission at Shanghae and convey to His Majesty's Government their thanks for its sympathetic attitude in appointing delegates,
I understand from my American colleague that this note was due to the initiative of his Government, who suggested some time ago to the Chinese that they should take such a step and at the same time endeavour to secure the continued interest of the Powers in the movement for the suppression of opium. The Chinese Government did not act upon the suggestion at the time, and when they eventually did so they took no notice of the point to which the Government at Washington attached the most importance.
I have, &c.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Wai-wu Pu to Sir J. Jordan.
J. N. JORDAN.
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(Translation.) Sir,
May 20, 1909. THE International Opium Conference which took place at Shanghae in February last, and to which His Britannic Majesty's Government was good enough to send representatives, formulated as the result of the deliberations which were then held, nine resolutions of a character most helpful to China in her task of suppressing the use of the drug.
In now addressing this letter to your Excellency we desire to express our sense of the admirable work of the conference, and to request that the thanks of the Chinese Government may be conveyed to His Majesty's Government for their sympathetic act in appointing delegates.
We avail, &c.
Prince CHING (and the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu).
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