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(c.) An agreement to stop in five instead of seven years our sales and exports to China, if China stops her own production within that time. This appears preferable to the stoppage of the trade in one province after another.
5. We can hardly exaggerate importance of last suggestion, for it implies that our last shipments from India will be, not in 1916, but in 1914. Serious loss will be entailed on British India and on several native States, and financial plans which we hoped to carry out on the basis of a seven years' agreement will be dislocated.
But we are ready to face sacrifices involved if it will end existing uncertainties and leave our trade free from disturbance.
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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Viscount Morley to Government of India.
India Office, March 24, 1911. WITH reference to telegram No. 80 from Jordan, dated the 22nd March, regarding opium, please furnish me as soon as possible with your views on the subject. Should you feel able to accept the terms set forth, which seem to me to be prima facie fairly reasonable, a settlement may now be possible.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 27.)
MY telegram No. 77 of 17th March: Opium. Consul-general at Canton reports that opium for Kiangsi has been released.
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