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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 18189/11.
and address---
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Offlec,
8645
Sir:-
London.
366
10450
@ 20 MAY 11
FOREIGN OFFICE
May 15 1911.
With reference to the letter from this Office
of the 15th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir
+
E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, for the observa-
tions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a
copy of a despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at
Washington recording a conversation on the 11th
instant with the American Ambassador on the subject
of the date of meeting of the proposed Opium Confer-
ence at the Hague.
As the Secretary of State is aware the Nether-
2
lands Government have now decided to postpone the
Conference indefinitely.
Baron Gericke's note
notifying that decision was not, however, received
until the day after the conversation between Sir E.
Grey and Mr. Whitelaw Reid.
I am, Sir,
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Th Campbel's
June