CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 335

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Geverun 1520

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[28853]

No. 1.

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Reco REGE 22 AUG

[July 25.]

SECTION 5.

Sir,

Foreign Office to India Office.

Foreign Office, July 25, 1911. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Crewe, the accompanying copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking,* reporting an application by the Chinese Government that certain provinces should be declared entitled to come under the provisions of article 3 of the recent opium agreement.

Sir E. Grey proposes, subject to Lord Crewe's concurrence, to approve Sir J. Jordan's reply to this application.

* Sir J. Jordan, No. 166, Telegraphic.

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F. A. CAMPBELL.