CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 595

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OPIUM.

Mod 16 JUN 11

CONFIDENTIAL.

[May 26.]

SECTION 3.

[20267]

No. 1.

Sir,

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received May 20.)

Downing Street, May 25, 1911. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th May, forwarding a copy of a despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington on the subject of the date of meeting of the proposed Opium Conference at The Hagne.

2. I am to request you to inform Secretary Six F. Grey that Mr. Harcourt adheres to the views expressed in the letter from this department of the 28th April.

I am, &c.

G. V. FIDDES.

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