[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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Enclosure 2 in No 1.
Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan!
SIR JOHN JORDAN has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum from the Wai-chiao Pu, dated the 26th instant, requesting him to include Chekiang in the list of provinces into which the import of Indian opium is forbidden.
The Wai-chiao Pu are no doubt well aware that Sir John Jordan has ever been ready to make the necessary investigations in all cases of provinces which it might be desired to place on the prohibition list.
The poppy season in Chekiang is now over, and it is too late to attempt any investigations. It is unfortunate that Chekiang did not make its application earlier, if it wished to be placed on the prohibition list this year.
The evidence in the possession of Sir John Jordan would not justify him in acceding to the request put forward by the Wai-chiao Pu until he has made fuller and more detailed enquiries.
His Majesty's consuls at Hangchow and Ningpo are being called upon to submit reports in this connection, and on their receipt His Majesty's Legation will again communicate with the Wai-chiao Pu on the subject.
Peking, May 29, 1913.
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received June 20.)
[June 20.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office, June 19, 1913. WITH reference to your letter of the 7th June, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to inform you that his Lordship concurs in the reply which Sir John Jordan proposes, in his telegram of the 6th June, to make to the memorandum of the Wai-wu Pu on the subject of the opium stocks.
I am, &c.
T. W. HOLDERNESS.
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