CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 576

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SUNNY BANK,

BATLEY,

((32341).

C.O.

35162

RECH

R 28 SEP 08

573.

YORKSHIRE.

September 16th, 1908.

Dear Sir Edward:-

Thanks for your letter. I have written Mr.

Hedley to call in London at the Foreign Office or

House of Commons after October 12th and write you be-

forehand.

The

In any case I was about to write to you once

more re the Shanghai Opium etc., Commission.

Board of Representatives of all the five or six Anti-

Opium Societies are getting very anxious as to the ap-

pointment of the British Commissioners and have made

several communications to me lately or rather leading

members of that Board have done so as well as the

Board. They are pleased to express their entire

confidence not only in Lord Morley and yourself but

also in me as their appointed Parliamentary Repre-

sentative,