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Rece & FOREIGN OFMI,9 DEC 09
December §. 1909.
Gir:-
Grey to inform you
1 am directed by Secretary Sir 2.
that your letter of October 23rd last in regard to the Indo-
Chinese opium traffic has been carefully considered in cour
munication with His Majesty's Secretary of State for indie,
and Sir 5. Grey now desires to offer the following observe-
tions:-
The Committee press for tãe revision of the ten years
limit on the ground that the Chinese Imperial Government &
sone at least of the provincial Viceroys are anxious co
suppress the cultivation of the poppy in Chine within a
shorter period and are sanguine from the progress already
made that this will be accomplished within the next two
years. The sincerity of these aspirations is not questione
but they have abill to be translated into facts. The in-
formation laid before the Shanghai Comasission showed that
The Honorary Secretary
to the edinburgh Committee,
8, Greenbank Terrace,
„dinburgh.
China
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