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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
OPIUM,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[35348]
No. 1.
[September 11.]
SECTION 1.
556
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.*
Foreign Office, September 11, 1911. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information of the Marquess of Crewe, that a telegram has been received from His Majesty'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 Conference in October next.
Sir J. Jordan has been informed by telegraph that this statement is altogether misleading, and that His Majesty's Government considered that a conference would be useless unless the other Powers concerned were prepared 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 conference at a date to be agreed upon as soon as the other Powers are ready to comply with these conditions.
I am, &c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
[21827-1]
* Also to Colonial Office and Board of Trade, mutatis mutandis
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