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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[33922]
No. 1.
[August 30.]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.*
WITH reference to my letter of the 23rd instant respecting the proposed opium
Foreign Office, August 30, 1911. conference, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for the information of the Marquess of Crewe, copy of a letter from the Board of Trade,† enclosing a statement showing the quantities of morphia and cocaine exported from this country in the first half of the year.
Sir E. Grey presumes that he will be justified in adding to the note which he proposes to address to the Netherlands Minister a statement to the effect that His Majesty's Government are now in possession of sufficient data to render possible the discussion of the control of morphia and cocaine so far as the United Kingdom is concerned.
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
* Also to Colonial Office, mutatis mutandis. [2155 gg-2]
† Board of Trade, August 26, 1911.
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