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OPIUM.
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CO 7235
[February 14.]
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SECTION 1.
No. 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.~~(Received February 14.)
India Office, February 13, 1911. WITH reference to Sir John Jordan's telegram No. 33, dated the 8th February, 1911, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that until the Chinese Government by revision of existing treaties obtain power to exclude uncertifi- cated opium, they are not entitled to discriminate between one class of opium and another.
The Government of India are responsible to buyers of opium before 1911, and to buyers of certificated opium in 1911, that these two classes of opium shall not be denied, even in the event of treaty revision, entry into China; and they seek accordingly that in any treaty revision this shall be secured. But they are not under similar responsibility with regard to uncertificated opinm sold in 1911, which may, in the event of treaty revision, be excluded from China.
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R. RITCHIE.
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