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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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C.O 19352
[July 20.]
SKOTION 4.
REP CO
No. 1.
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Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.*
Foreign Office, July 20, 1909. I AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, the accompanying copy of a letter from Mr. C. E. Price, M.P., forwarding on behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic a memorial signed by some 3,000 persons from all parts of Scotland, urging the desirability of bringing that traffic to a more speedy conclusion than has yet been arranged for.
I am to enclose at the same time the draft reply, which, with the concurrence of Lord Morley. Sir E. Grey proposes to return to the memorialists.
It will be noted that the committee propose to make public the memorial and the
answer.
* Also to Colonial Office, mutatis mutundis.
I am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
Mr. Price, July 9, and memorial without signatures. Draft reply to Mr. Price.
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