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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[15958]
No. 1.
15972
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[April 29.]
But || MY || ISECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received April 29.)
India Office, April 28, 1911. WITH reference to Sir John Jordan's telegram No. 104 of the 25th April, 1911, on the subject of the proposed opium agreement with China, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a telegram from the Government of India.
As the telegram has been repeated to the Minister, I am to suggest that he should be asked, with reference to it, to ascertain whether the Chinese Government would accept the suggestion that the reduction of the imports of Indian opium should be spread over the three years 1912, 1913, 1914; or, if not, whether they would agree that if the full reduction cannot be made this year, it would be made good in 1912, the Indian Government being instructed to make this year as great a reduction as possible.
am, &c.
T
R. RITCHIE.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of India to Viscount Morley.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Calcutta, April 26, 1911. WITH reference to telegram from Jordan, No. 104 dated the 25th April. One correction is essential to render the agreement practicable. Reduction of our sales and of our exports to China during the year 1911 to the amount of one quarter of the opium not certified, in accordance with Jordan's draft, is impossible, as year is too far advanced. If necessary we can furnish full details by telegraph, but doubtless the reasons will be obvious. We would suggest that the agreement should stipulate for & reduction in our exports by one-third of the non-certified opium in each of the years 1912, 1913, and 1914.
(Repented to Peking.)
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