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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 45.) Sir,
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
[February 3.]
SECTION 1.
Foreign Office, February 3, 1910.
I REFERRED to the Secretary of State for India your despatches Nos. 448 and 466 of the 2nd and 16th December respectively relating to the opium regulations at Canton, and I now transmit to you a copy of Lord Morley's reply.*
you,
I concur generally in the views expressed in this letter, and I authorise should you find it necessary, to inform the Chinese Government that the freedom of the irholesale trade in the treaty ports between native dealers and the importing merchants was regarded as a condition of the arrangement by which the Indian Government agreed to a progressive reduction in the opiuma trade in the three years ending 1910, and to point out that, should proposals be made by China for a continuance of that arrangement for a further term on the ground that she has fulfilled her share of the existing agreement, the Government of India will naturally expect to be satisfied that the condition in question has been observed, and that it will continue to be observed by the provincial Governments.
I am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
* India Office, January 26, 1910.
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