CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 370

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[39995]

CO 35950

[November 3.]

SECTION 3.

Rec

No. H

Rraf 24 NOV 10

Sir,

India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received November 3.)

India Office, November 2, 1910.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 29th October, 1910, euclosing a telegram from Mr. Max Müller on the subject of the proposed opius arrangement with China.

In reply I am to suggest that Mr. Max Müller should be informed that his presumption regarding the Chinese official is right; that Sir Alex. Hosie's suggestion may, if necessary, be acted on; and that His Majesty's Government are of his opinion that the inclusion of such a clause as that mentioned in the last part of bis telegram is not desirable.

&c.

I am,

COLIN G CAMPBELL.

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