CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 254

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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

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RESE 3 MAY 12

[April 10

SECTION 1.

Sir,

India Office to Foreign Office. -- (Received April 10.)

India Office, April 9, 1912. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Langley's letter, dated the 3rd April, regarding the restrictions imposed on the opium trade by the local authorities in Chekiang, and in reply to state, for Sir E. Grey's information, that the Marquess of Crewe concurs in the proposal to instruct Sir J. Jordan to address a further note to the Wai-wu Pu, including the suggested reference to compensation for losses, if no satisfactory answer to his previous

I am, &c. notes is received within a reasonable time.

R. RITCHIE.

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