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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.),
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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SECTION 2.
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No. 1.
(No. 193.)
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 2.) ..
(Telegraphic.) R.
YOUR telegram No. 125 of 1st September.
Peking, September 2, 1911.
There was some cultivation in Manchuria up to 1909, but in that year new Viceroy introduced severe measures of suppression, and, according to all recent reports, poppy has been completely eradicated.
Import of foreign opium has been insignificant for years.
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