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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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25501

RECR [August19 AUG 10)

SECTION 1.

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No. 1.

Foreign Office to Mesers. H. D. Sassoon and Co,*

Gentlemen,

Foreign Office, August 6, 1910.

your letters I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of of the 7th, 18th, and 28th ultimo in regard to the additional taxation on opium imposed by the Chinese authorities in Kuantung.

In reply, I am to inform you that the Chinese Government have delegated an official to discuss the whole question with His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking, to whom full instructions are being sent.

Sir E. Grey hopes that these discussions may lead to a satisfactory settlement of

the matter.

I a01,

&c. W. LANGLEY.

* Also to Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Colonial Office, and London Chamber of Commerce, mutatis mutandis.

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