CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 137

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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Gov@unnt.

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July 26 SEP 07

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

SECTION 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received July 16.)

(No. 141.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Peking, July 16, 1907. WITH reference to your telegram No. 85 of the 12th instant on the subject of the establishment of an opium monopoly at Nanking, I have the bonour to inform you that, according to His Majesty's Consul at that port, the attempt to institute such a monopoly has for the present proved a failure.

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