CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 371

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 18189/11.

and address---

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Offlec,

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Sir:-

London.

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@ 20 MAY 11

FOREIGN OFFICE

May 15 1911.

With reference to the letter from this Office

of the 15th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir

+

E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, for the observa-

tions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a

copy of a despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at

Washington recording a conversation on the 11th

instant with the American Ambassador on the subject

of the date of meeting of the proposed Opium Confer-

ence at the Hague.

As the Secretary of State is aware the Nether-

2

lands Government have now decided to postpone the

Conference indefinitely.

Baron Gericke's note

notifying that decision was not, however, received

until the day after the conversation between Sir E.

Grey and Mr. Whitelaw Reid.

I am, Sir,

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Th Campbel's

June