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No. 1,

Sir,

Foreign Office to Colonial Office,

WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the forthcoming

Foreign Office, November 8, 1911. international opium conference, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Harcourt, the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Lisbon and of a letter from the Portuguese Minister at this Court, requesting the support of His Majesty's Government in obtaining the consent of the Chinese Government to the construction of the Macao -Canton Railway.* Sir E. Grey does not think that support could properly be given to an attempt to make such consent a condition of the adoption by Portugal of a reasonable attitude in the matter of opium. He would, however, before replying to Senhor Teixeira- Gomes, be glad to be furnished with Mr. Harcourt's views on the subject.

I am, &c.

F. A. CAMPBELL.

Mr. Gaisford (No. 114), and Portuguese Minister, October 30, 1911.

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