CUPY.
C.R.T.8495/1919.
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T6784
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27 DV.12.1 Commercial Relations and Treaties' Dept.
Board of Trade,
Great George Street,
Westminster,
London, S. W.1.
7th November, 1919.
My Lord,
With reference to your letter (No.142418/10/F)
of the 25th October,regarding the exportation of morphia to China via Japan, I am directed by the Board of Trade
to observe for the information of Earl Curzon of
Kedleston, that worphia may not be exported from the United Kingdom to Japan (or to the Kwantung Leased Territory) either as freight or by parcels post except under licence from the Board's Export Licence Department.
In the case of freight shipments, the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee are apparently satisfied that
the arrangements brought into force in 1917 have been
satisfactory and that shipments of morphia to Japan have practically ceased. The Committee may not, however, be aware that the same conditions of licencing are also applied to exports by parcels post and that no licence 18 issued for an export by parcel post, unless the Export Licence Department is in possession of the usual certificate from the Japanese Home Office certifying the consignment in question to be required in Japan for medical purposes only.
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
3.W.
Morphia,/