CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 80

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OPIUM.

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Sir,

India Office to Foreign Office.~(Received August 10.)

WITH reference this Office letter dated the 3rd August, 1910, on the subject

India Office, August 9, 1910. of the proposed Opium Conference at The Hague, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward to you, to be laid before Sir Edward Grey, a copy of a letter from the Government of India enclosing a memorandum by Mr. J. B. Brunyate, C.I.E., on certain statements made in a report by Mr. Hamilton Wright on the proceedings of the Shanghai Opium Commission,

Viscount Morley desires to leave it to Sir Edward Grey to decide whether the memorandum should be referred to Sir Cecil C. Smith.

Enclosure 1 in No. 1.

I am, &c.

R. RITCHIE.

Government of India to Viscount Marley.

My Lord,

Simla, July 21, 1910. IN continuation of our telegram dated the 4th July, 1910, we have the honour to submit, for your consideration, the memorandum therein referred to. It has been prepared, at our request, by Mr. J. B. Brunyate, CIE, the officer who represented India at the recent international commission at Shanghai, and it deals with certain incorrect statements as to the attitude and recommendations of that commission which are contained in a report by Mr. Hamilton Wright, one of the American delegates who attended it. We attach importance to the correction of the impression which these misrepresentations may have made on His Majesty's Government, more particularly in view of the fact that Mr. Wright's report has been made the basis of certain proposals for international action to which, in the interests of India, we object.

2. We would suggest that Mr. Brunyate's memorandum be referred to the Right Honourable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith for his opinion or confirmation.

We have, &c.

MINTO.

O'M. CREAGH,

G. FLEETWOOD WILSON,

S. P. SINHA.

J. L. JENKINS.

R. W. CARLYLE.

Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

Memorandum by Mr. Brunyate.

AT the request of the Government of India, I record my impressions on the report on the International Opium Commission at Shanghai which has been submitted to the United States Government by Dr. Hamilton Wright, a representative of that Government on the commission. The report referred to is the section headed "The International Opium Commission and its Results," which forms the concluding portion of a communication dated the 1st January, 1910, from Dr. Hamilton Wright to the American Secretary of State, and is reproduced on pp. 62-75 of the United States Government official paper "Senate-sixty-first Congress, 2nd session, document

No. 377."

2. The tone of Dr. Wright's narrative 'departs so unexpectedly and so widely from the spirit which animated our discussions and findings at Shanghai that I should

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