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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[February 11.]
mta 20+ER-09 SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.*
Foreign Office, February 11, 1909. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 13th ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the action of the Provincial Government at Canton in placing restrictions upon sale of opium.†
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Sir E. Grey proposes, if the Earl of Crewe sces no objection, to concur in the views expressed by Sir J. Jordan to the effect that no violation of British Treaty rights is involved by the terms of the Rules issued by the Provincial Government in September 1906. Even should a case be made out in favour of the Rules being considered to constitute a technical violation of Treaty rights, Sir E. Grey would be disposed all the same not to raise objection to the Rules being carried out.
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(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Also to India Office, mutatis mutandis.
f Sir J. Jordan, No. 12, January 6, 1909,
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