This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,
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[Jul 48.]
SECTION 3.
08
[AMENDED SECTION.]
No. 1.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(23084]
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, July 18, 1908.
I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd ultimo in regard to the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the constitution, procedure, scope, and time and place of meeting of the proposed Joint International Opium Commission at Shanghae.
I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a letter from the India Office,* from which you will perceive that the Secretary of State for India expresses views in general harmony with those of the Earl of Crewe.
Sir E. Grey considers that the reply to the United States' Government should be on the lines suggested by the India Office, and I am to inclose a draft of the communication he would propose to address to the United States' Ambassador should Lord Crewe concur.
It would seem that by the proposed alteration in the instructions to the Delegates the necessity for fresh investigations into the opium question, which Lord Crewe would prefer to dispense with, would be obviated.
With regard to the last paragraph of the India Office letter, Sir E. Grey concurs in the proposal that one Delegate should be appointed to represent India, another to represent the Crown Colonies, and a third by the Foreign Office among His Majesty's officers serving in China; and he has nominated as representative of this Department Sir Alexander Hosie, His Majesty's Consul-General at Cheng-tu, and Acting Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Legation in China. In the event of Lord Crewe also concurring, he will be glad to learn in due course, for communication to the Government of the United States, the name of the Delegate whom his Lordship proposes to nominate.
As regards the question of cost, it is presumed that the salaries and travelling expenses of the Colonial Delegate will be defrayed from Colonial funds, but that application should be made to the Treasury by this Department for the living expenses of the British and Colonial Delegates at Shanghae to be charged to the Imperial Exchequer, together with any incidental expenditure which may be incurred.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Draft Note to Mr. Whitelaw Reid.
WITH reference to your Excellency's note of the 8th May last communicating to me the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the constitution, scope, procedure, and time and place of meeting of the proposed International Opium Commission at Shanghae, I have the honour to state that His Majesty's Government accept with pleasure the proposal that the Joint Commission shall meet at Shanghae. They propose to nominate as British Delegates :-
1. Sir A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul-General at Chengtu, and Acting Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Legation in China.
2.
3.
While His Majesty's Government have every desire to further the general objects which the United States' Government have in view, they cannot but think, after
* India Office, June 22, 1908.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,
460
32383
[Jul 48.]
SECTION 3.
08
[AMENDED SECTION.]
No. 1.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(23084]
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, July 18, 1908. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowedge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd ultimo in regard to the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the constitution, procedure, scope, and time and place of meeting of the proposed Joint International Opium Commission at Shanghae.
I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a letter from the India Office,* from which you will perceive that the Secretary of State for India expresses views in general harmony with those of the Earl of Crewe.
Sir E. Grey considers that the reply to the United States' Government should be on the lines suggested by the India Office, and I am to inclose a draft of the communi- ication he would propose to address to the United States' Ambassador should Lord
Crewe concur.
It would seem that by the proposed alteration in the instructions to the Delegates the necessity for fresh investigations into the opium question, which Lord Crewe would prefer to dispense with, would be obviated.
With regard to the last paragraph of the India Office letter, Sir E. Grey concurs in the proposal that one Delegate should be appointed to represent India, another to represent the Crown Colonies, and a third by the Foreign Office among His Majesty's officers serving in China; and he has nominated as representative of this Department Sir Alexander Hosie, His Majesty's Consul-General at Cheng-tu, and Acting Com- mercial Attaché to His Majesty's Legation in China. In the event of Lord Crewe also concurring, he will be glad to learn in due course, for communication to the Government of the United States, the name of the Delegate whom his Lordship proposes to nominate.
As regards the question of cos. it is presumed that the salaries and travelling expenses of the Colonial Delegate will be defrayed from Colonial funds, but that appli- cation should be made to the Treasury by this Department for the living expenses of the British and Colonial Delegates at Shanghae to be charged to the Imperial Exchequer, together with any incidental expenditure which may be incurred.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Draft Note to Mr. Whitelaw Reid.
WITH reference to your Excellency's note of the 8th May last communicating to me the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the constitution, scope, procedure, and time and place of meeting of the proposed International Opium Commission at Shanghae, I have the honour to state that His Majesty's Government accept with pleasure the proposal that the Joint Commission shall meet at Shanghae. They propose to nominate as British Delegates :-
1. Sir A. Hosic, His Majesty's Consul-General at Chengtu, and Acting Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Legation in China.
2.
3.
While His Majesty's Government have every desire to further the general objects which the United States' Government have in view, they cannot but think, after * India Office, June 22, 1908.
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