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Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 13.)
India Office, October 12, 1910. WITH reference to your letters of the 26th August and 27th September respec- tively, regarding the memorandum by Mr. Brunyate on Dr. Hamilton Wright's report on the Shanghai Opium Commission, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to inform you that it would in his opinion be desirable to take an early opportunity of bringing under the notice of the Government of the United States the purport of the memorandum, with a view to correcting any misapprehensions which may have arisen as to the results of the Shanghai Commission. His Lordship recognises that the memorandum, which was not drawn up with a view to this specific purpose, may be considered unsuitable for communication to the United States Government in its present form, but if Sir Edward Grey concurs in the proposal that some steps should be taken, Lord Morley is prepared to have the papers recast into a shape to which no reasonable objection could be raised.
I am, &c.
R. RITCHIE.
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