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[April 5.]
SECTION 2.
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(No. 67.)
(Telegraphic.) R.
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
Foreign Office, April 5, 1911.
YOUR telegram No. 89 of 31st March: Opium. Is not the Chinese proposal to omit the words "under transit pass " identical in substance with the proposal described in your telegram No. 80 of 22nd March, and acquiesced in by the Government of India in their telegram of 25th March?
If it is, why should not the form of words employed in that telegram be adopted, and a proviso added to the draft clause prohibiting Indian import into any treaty port (Canton and Shanghai excepted) in a province where cultivation and importation of native opium have been suppressed?
If it is not identical, please explain its exact effect as compared with the proposal described in your telegram No. 80.
(Repeated to India.)
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