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Rrot 22 AUG 11
[July 28.]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, July 28, 1911. WITH reference to your letter of the 3rd ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Crowe, the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking,* relative to the restrictions imposed by the authorities in the province of Fukien on the trade in opium.
The correspondence between His Majesty's consul at Foochow and the Viceroy of Fukien, enclosed in this despatch, appears to be that to which Mr. Werner referred in his despatch to Sir J. Jordan, No. 7, of the 28th March, copy of which accompanied the letter from this department of the 24th May last. Sir E. Grey informed Sir J. Jordan on the 16th June, in accordance with the final paragraph of your letter of the 6th of that month, that he would, before expressing a definite opinion upon one of the new regulations reported, await the receipt of the correspondence above referred to. As, however, the question now appears to have been settled in a satisfactory manner, it will perhaps be unnecessary to instruct Sir J. Jordan further on this point.
I am to add that Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. have been informed of the result of Sir J. Jordan's representations to the Chinese Government.
I am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Sir J. Jordan, No. 268, July 1, 1911.
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