CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 614

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

610

[June 23.]

SECTION 1.

Sir,

Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 23.)

American Embassy, London, June 22, 1908. WITH reference to my note of the 8th May last on the subject of the opium trade iu China, I have the honour to inform you that my Government has appointed the following gentlemen as American Commissioners to the Joint International Commission to investigate the production and sale of opium in the Far East, which it is proposed to hold at Shanghac next year ----

Hon. Thomas Burke, Dr. Hamilton Bright, Dr. Charles D. Tenney.

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I have, &c. (Signed)

WHITELAW REID.