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(This Document is the Property of
Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM.
RECO REG 16 JUN 11
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CONFIDENTIAL.
[May 5.]
SECTION 2.
[16952]
No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, May 5, 1911. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the opium negotiations now proceeding at Peking between this country and China, I am directed by Sir E. Grey to transmit herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, stating that the Wai-wu Pu propose to sign the agreement on the 8th instant, and ask that the movement of opium in bond and in stock should be stopped on that day to enable the Customs to do the work of listing.
I am to request, should Mr. Secretary Harcourt see no objection, that confidential instructions may be telegraphed to the Governor of Hong Kong, as desired by Sir John Jordan, to the effect that he should take concerted action with the Commissioner of Customs in listing on Monday next the uncertificated Indian opium in the Colony which is intended for the Chinese market, and which, as will be seen from paragraphs 1 and 2 of the accompanying telegram No. 104 of April 25 from Sir J. Jordan,† must be exported to China within seven days.
I am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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* Sir J. Jordan, No. 114, Telegraphic.
† Sir J. Jordan, No. 104, Telegraphic, April 25, 1911.