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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[29375]
No. 1.
CO
333
Rra 22 AUG I
[July 20.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received July 26.)
India Office, July 25, 1911. WITH reference to Sir John Jordan's telegram No. 164, dated the 21st July, 1911, on the subject of the new opium regulations made by the Viceroy of Canton, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to suggest that His Majesty's Minister at Peking should be instructed to protest most strongly against the Viceroy's disregard of the undertaking given to His Majesty's Government by the Imperial Chinese Government in article 7 of the agreement of the 8th May, 1911, and to insist on the regulations question being immediately withdrawn.
It might be well that the Chinese Government should be informed that His Majesty's Government view with extreme concern this early infraction of an agreement in which their good-will and sympathy were conspicuously manifested, and consider that China's good faith and honour are involved in its speedy reparation.
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I am, &c.
R. RITCHIE.