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would be prepared to co-operate in any equitable measure for prohibiting the general importation of opium into China which the Chinese Government may then propose. Lord Morley would not object to an undertaking to this effect being given to the Chinese Government upon their agreeing to continue the present arrangement for the gradual reduction of the Indian export trade for a further term of three years with effect from January 1911.
am, &c.
ED. S. MONTAGU.
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Rece 1 JUL 10) [June 14.]
SECTION 3.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.*
Foreign Office, June 14, 1910. WITH reference to your letter of the 19th November last, I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a note from the United States Ambassador in London, giving a list of the Powers which have declared their intention of sending delegates to the proposed Opium Conference at The Hague, and expressing the hope that His Majesty's Government will see their way to accepting the American proposals.† Sir E. Grey would be glad to be furnished with any observations the Earl of Crewe may have to offer on Mr. Whitelaw Reid's communication.
I am to add that no reply has yet been received from the Government of India, but that the matter has again been referred by Sir E. Grey to Lord Morley.
am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
*Also to Board of Trade, mutatis mutandis. [2793 o-3]
† Mr. Whitelaw Reid, June 8, 1910.
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