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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[September 6.]
SECTION 2.
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Colonial Office to Foreign Office.---(Received September 6.)
Downing Street, September 5, 1910.
Sir,
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th August, transmitting a draft of the reply which it is proposed to return to the United States Ambassador with regard to the suggested opium conference at The Hague.
2. I am to request you to inform Secretary Sir Edward Grey that Lord Crewe concurs in the ternis of the draft reply; and that his Lordship agrees that it will be desirable to obtain the views of Sir C. Clementi Smith on the memorandum prepared by the Government of India.
3. Lord Crewe presumes that Sir Edward Grey will communicate with Sir C. Clementi Smith on the subject; and he would suggest that the question whether the criticisms contained in the memorandum should be communicated to the United States Government might be determined on the receipt of Sir C. Smith's reply, and in the light of any observations that he may offer.
1 am, &c.
G. V. FIDDES.
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