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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM
CONFIDENTIAL.
[35865]
No. 1.
о
32749
9 OCT 1
[September 12.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 12.)
Downing Street, September 11, 1911. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the Ist September, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, the accompanying paraphrase of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong, from which it will be seen that the merchants have withdrawn their request that existing stocks of Persian opium at Hong Kong should be admitted into China and that an extension of two years should be granted to enable them to wind up their business.
Enclosure in No. 1.
ami,
&c.
C. P. LUCAS.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Governor Sir F. Lugard to Mr. Harcourt.
YOUR cypher telegram of the 31st August.
[Received September 9, 1911.]
Minister has been informed that the request as to Persian opium is withdrawn by the merchants.
[2182 m-1]