CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 76

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Sir:-

INDIA OFFICE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.W.

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January 2nd, 1909.

With reference to your letter No.42012 dated 21st

December, with regard to the instructions given to

the British delegates to the Shanghai Opium Commis-

sion, I am directed by the Secretary of State for In-

dia in Council to request that you will lay before

Sir Edward Grey the enclosed copy of a telegram from

the Government of India.

I am to say that, even if the instructions had

not been already settled and given to the British de-

legates, it would not in Lord Morley's opinion be

possible to direct the delegates to refuse to discuss

in the Commission the two topics mentioned by the

Government of India.

If they are raised, they will

have to be discussed;

and Lord Morley is not without

hope that the consequences will not be as serious as

the Government of India apprehends.

But I am to sug

The Under Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs.

gest