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AMERICAN EMBASSY,
LONDON,
June 8th 1910.
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Rro215 JUN 10
Sir:-
In your Note to Mr. Carter, dated March 14th 1907,
it was stated that in the opinion of His Majesty's Government
procedure by way of Commission would seem better adapted
than a Conference for an investigation of the facts of the
Upium trade and of the consequences of the opium habit in
the Far East; but that if the other Powers consulted would
prefer procedure by way of a Conference, His Majesty'e Gov-
ernment had no desire to press their views in regard to a
Commission,
In view of the aforesaid Note my Government could not
but feel that His Majesty's Government were at that time
favourable to the meeting of a Conference to settle the
question of the production of opium in China as well as the
importation of foreign opium to that country. However, in
Sir Edward Grey, Bart..
MC.,
dc., &c.
deference