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tion on this subject, please quote

No.

and address

6280/09.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

Agram Deb-76

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5846

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FOREIGN OFFICE

1375

February 17th, 1909.

1

Sir: -

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to trans-

mit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State

for the Colonies, a decode of a telegram from the

British Opium Commissioner at Shanghai and to suggest,

for the Earl of Crewe's consideration, that all avail-

able information should be communicated to this De-

partment as soon as possible as to the extent of

opium smoking among Chinese coolies on the Rand and

as to the spread of the opium habit from the Chinese

to other races, white and black.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

W. Langley

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.