In any further communica- tion on this subject, please quote
No. 35348/11.
and address-r
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
Sir:-
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FOREIGN OFFICE ||
September
11 1911.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state for the information of Dr. Secretary Harcourt that a telegram has been received from His Lajesty's Minister at Peking reporting that the official organ of the
Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs has published a
telegram from London charging Great Britain with having
withheld her consent to the holding of the Opium Con-
ference in October next.
Sir J. Jordan has been informed by telegraph that
this statement is altogether misleading, and that lis
Majesty's Government considered that a conference would
be useless unless the other Powers concerned were pre-
pared to discuss the question of morphia and cocaine
and the adoption of such measures as were required to
control the trade in these drugs, but that they have
intimated their willingness to take part in the con-
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
ference