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# CHINA TRADE
## CONFIDENTIAL
[39214]
No. 1.
[November 10.]
## SECTION 1.
214
Sir,
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey--(Received November 10.)
American Embassy, London, November 8, 1908.
WITH reference to the note which you were good enough to address to me on the 4th instant inquiring whether my Government have arrived at a decision with regard to the scope of, and the procedure to be followed by, the International Opium Commission shortly to assemble at Shanghae, and also what their final wishes are on these points, I have the honour to state that I at once cabled to Washington for information, and am now in receipt of a reply stating that the Commission is composed of Delegates of the following Powers: China, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, Siam, and the United States, and that Turkey has also been invited.
As modifying somewhat the suggestions regarding the scope of the present investigation, my Government further suggest that each Commissioner should be able to inform the whole Commission when it assembles at Shanghae as to the regulations and restrictions in force at present in his own country, and to formulate and discuss proposals for amending such regulations in points in which they may be found, in the course of the joint inquiry, to affect the production, commerce, use, and disadvantages of opium in the Far East.
I have further the honour to state that the date fixed for the meeting of the Commission is the 1st January next.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
WHITELAW REID.
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[39214]
No. 1.
[November 10.]
SECTION 1.
214
Sir,
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey--(Received November 10.)
American Embassy, London, November 8, 1908. WITH reference to the note which you were good enough to address to me on the 4th instant inquiring whether my Government have arrived at a decision with regard to the scope of, and the procedure to be followed by, the International Opium Com- mission shortly to assemble at Shanghae, and also what their final wishes are on these points, I have the honour to state that I at once cabled to Washington for information, and am now in receipt of a reply stating that the Commission is composed of Delegates of the following Powers: China, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, Siam, and the United States, and that Turkey has also been invited.
As modifying somewhat the suggestions regarding the scope of the present investigation, my Government further suggest that each Commissioner should be able to inform the whole Commission when it assembles at Shanghae as to the regulations and restrictions in force at present in his own country, and to formulate and discuss proposals for amending such regulations in points in which they may be found, in the course of the joint inquiry, to affect the production, commerce, use, and disadvantages of opium in the Far East.
I have further the honour to state that the date fixed for the meeting of the Commission is the 1st January next.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
WHITELAW REID.
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