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19 MAR 15
[January 23}
OPIUM.
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CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Ofice to India Office.
Foreign Office, January 23, 1914. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Representative Board of British Anti-opium Societies, with regard to the closing of the provinces which still remain open to Indian opium and to the question of the opium shop licenses in the International Concession at Shanghai.*
Sir E. Grey proposes, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State for India, to reply that while he is in entire sympathy with the motives which prompted Dr. Caldecott's letter, he cannot usefully add anything to his letter of the 5th November, 1914, to Mr. C. E. Price, M.P. (of which a copy was sent to the India Office in letter No. 74264 of the 2nd ultimo), which the societies have already seen.
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am, &c.
• Dr. Caldecott, January 4, 1915.
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