[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[December 20.]
SROTION 3.
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No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey. (Received December 20.)
(Telegraphic.) R.
YOUR telegram No. 203 of 18th December.
Peking, December 20, 1912.
Drastic measures are being adopted nearly everywhere to suppress the cultivation, trade, and consumption of opium, and there is no evidence of any discrimination in favour of the native drug.
(Sent to India.)
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