[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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SECTION 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Max Müller.
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No. 1.
5. 121.)
Foreign Office, September 2, 1910.
(Telegraphic.) R.
YOUR telegram No. 139 of 10th August: Opium.
Messrs. Sassoon, to whom we communicated gist of above telegram, now report
that local authoritics still refuse to release opium seized in Canton.
say that
You should press Wai-wu Pu for a reply to your note of 1st August, and His Majesty's Government strongly deprecate action of Chinese officials while general question is still under discussion.
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