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[This Decument is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government

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CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

[August 18] SEP 07

SECTION 1.

Sir,

India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received August 13.)

India Office, August 12, 1907.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 8th instant, on the subject of the contemplated establishment of an opium monopoly at Nanking, and to say that Mr. Secretary Morley concurs in the action which Sir Edward Grey proposes to take.

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am, &c.

(Signed)

A. GODLEY.