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AMERICAN EMBASSY,

LONDON,

June 8th 1910.

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Rro215 JUN 10

Sir:-

In your Note to Mr. Carter, dated March 14th 1907,

it was stated that in the opinion of His Majesty's Government

procedure by way of Commission would seem better adapted

than a Conference for an investigation of the facts of the

Upium trade and of the consequences of the opium habit in

the Far East; but that if the other Powers consulted would

prefer procedure by way of a Conference, His Majesty'e Gov-

ernment had no desire to press their views in regard to a

Commission,

In view of the aforesaid Note my Government could not

but feel that His Majesty's Government were at that time

favourable to the meeting of a Conference to settle the

question of the production of opium in China as well as the

importation of foreign opium to that country. However, in

Sir Edward Grey, Bart..

MC.,

dc., &c.

deference