CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 507

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CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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REGE 26 MAR 07)

[March 14.]

SECTION 2,

No. 1.

(No. 29.)

(Telegraphic.) P.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordun.

Foreign Office, March 14, 1907. OPIUM. My telegram No. 202 of the 24th November, 1906.

We have informed the United States' Government, in reply to their inquiry, that we should prefer procedure by way of a Commission to an International Conference.

We do not, however, wish to press this view if other Powers prefer Conference. Please repeat above to Mr. H. C. Lowther.

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