CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 665

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CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

661

[December 1.]

SECTION 1,

Sir,

Foreign Office to India Office.*

Foreign Office, December 1, 1908. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, the text of the instructions with which it is proposed to furnish the British Delegates on the International Opium Conference at Shanghae.†

Sir E. Grey will be glad to learn, at Viscount Morley's earliest convenience, whether his Lordship concurs in the terms of these proposed instructions.

I am, &c.

(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.

* Also to Colonial Office, mutatis mutaudis.

† Draft Instructions; Mr. Bryce, No. 173, May 19, 1908; Ceylon Sessional Paper (not seut); Confidential Correspondence and Parliamentary Papers, with List (not sent).

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