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OPIUM.
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[January 10.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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SECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received January 10.)
India Office, January 10, 1911, WITH reference to your letter dated the 7th January, 1911, enclosing a telegram regarding Indian opium from Sir John Jordan, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that the Government of India have been instructed to repeat to him the telegrams which have passed between the Secretary of State and the Viceroy, as shown in the margin, on the subject of continuing reduction of export and of introducing, in anticipation of an agreement being arrived at with China, a system of ear-marking the China portion of the export. Copies of these telegrams have already been communicated to you.
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I am to suggest that Sir John Jordan might be informed, with reference to the question of resuming negotiations with the Chinese Government, that Lord Crewe has consulted the Government of India on the proposals contained in Sir John Jordan's telegram No. 211, dated the 30th December, 1910, and that instructions regarding them will in due course be sent to him.
I am, &c.
R. RITCHIE.
* To Government of India, December 26 and 28, 1910, and January 3, 1911; Government of India. December 30, 1910. [1857 k-1]