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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 30763/11.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Offee,

mkdiate.

Sir:-

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FOREIGN OFFICE

London,

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1911.

With reference to the letter from this Office of

May 5th No.16412 I am directed by Secretary Sir E.

1

Grey to transmit to you, for any observations which

Mr. Secretary Harcourt may have to make, copy of a

memorandum communicated by the German Ambassador, and

of a note from the United States Ambassador respect-

ing the proposed Opium Conference.

Sir E. Grey proposes, subject to Mr. Harcourt's

concurrence, to express to Count Metternich pleasure

at learning that the German Government are collecting

data in regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine,

which His Majesty's Government are so anxious to see

effectively dealt with by a Conference, but that His

Majesty's Government still consider that it would

not advance matters much further if the Conference

were to meet without all the Powers concerned being

in

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.