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In any further communica- tion on this subject, please quote

No. 35348/11.

and address-r

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

Sir:-

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FOREIGN OFFICE ||

September

11 1911.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state for the information of Dr. Secretary Harcourt that a telegram has been received from His Lajesty's Minister at Peking reporting that the official organ of the

Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs has published a

telegram from London charging Great Britain with having

withheld her consent to the holding of the Opium Con-

ference in October next.

Sir J. Jordan has been informed by telegraph that

this statement is altogether misleading, and that lis

Majesty's Government considered that a conference would

be useless unless the other Powers concerned were pre-

pared to discuss the question of morphia and cocaine

and the adoption of such measures as were required to

control the trade in these drugs, but that they have

intimated their willingness to take part in the con-

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

ference