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4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of this telegram have been repeated to His Majesty's Minister at Peking. There is real urgency as to the question of earmarking. If a change so important is to be introduced in January, we ought to give immediate notice to the trade; and, as is explained in the foregoing paragraph, it seems to us that it would be futile to introduce the earmarking system later in the year.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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SECTION 3.
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No. 1.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 20.)
Sir,
American Embassy, London, December 19, 1910. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the International Opium Conference to be held at The Hague on the 30th May, 1911, I am instructed and have the honour to inform you that my Government has been advised by the Chinese Government that their delegates to the International Opium Conference are to be Mr. Lew Yuk-lin, lately appointed Minister to Great Britain; Mr. Tang Tsai Fu, chargé d'affaires at The Hague; and Mr. Tang Kuo-an, an Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. It has also been advised by the Siamese Government that their delegation is to be composed of Mr. Phya Visutr Kosa, the Siamese Minister to Great Britain, and W. J. Archer, Esq., C.M.G., Councillor of the Siamese Legation at this capital.
I have, &c.
WHITELAW REID.
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