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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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40958
[November 4.13
SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, November 4, 1913. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, copy of a memorandum communicated by the Netherlands Minister,* in which is embodied a proposal to conclude a convention between opium-producing and opium-importing countries, to limit the traffic exclusively to the Governments of the countries concerned, the convention to bear upon a limited area, as, for example, Southern and Eastern Asia.
I am to request that the Marquess of Crewe may be moved to favour Sir E. Grey with his observations on the proposal.
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
* Memorandum communicated by Netherlands Minister, October 20, 1913.
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