[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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OPIUM
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[REGo 28 JUL 14
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SECTION 4,
Viscount Kitchener to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 17.)
(No. 46.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Cairo, June 17, 1914.
IN reply to your telegram No. 44 of the 13th June, I have ascertained that the Egyptian Government, who are giving serious consideration to every possible means of suppressing the drug, have no objection to the bringing up of the question of hemp at the Opium Conference.
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