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OPIUM.
C.O.
30792
[September 27.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, September 27, 1910. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant in regard to the reply to be returned to the United States Government on the subject of the participation of this country in the opium conference to be held at The Hague.
I am to inform you that the reply has been dispatched to the United States Ambassador, the amendments made by your department and by the Board of Trade having been duly inserted.
I am at the same time to transmit to you a copy of a letter which has been received from Sir C. Clementi Smith.* There is nothing in this letter which seems to conflict with the views expressed in the letter from this department of the 26th ultimo.
Copies of letters from the Colonial Office and from the Board of Trade are enclosed herewith for Lord Morley's information.t
I am, &c.
* Sir C. Clementi Smith, September 8, 1910.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
† Colonial Office, September á; Board of Trade, August 31, 1910.
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