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We shall thank you to draw the attention of the British Minister and home authorities to the above, and to kindly impress upon them the fact that, while the British Government confesses itself unable to give British merchants the protection of the treaties, the Indian Government, the sellers of the opium, refuse to take even temporary measures to relieve the present grave situation.
We have, &c.
DAVID SASSOON AND Co. (Limited).
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM..
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[July 25.].
SECTION 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received July 25.)
India Office, July 24, 1912. Sir,
WITH reference to your letter, dated the 19th July, 1912, on the subject of the importation of Turkish and Persian opium into Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that he has already suggested to Mr. Secretary Harcourt the advisability of prohibiting the importation of these opiums into Hong Kong. I am to suggest that a copy of Sir John Jordan's despatch might be communicated to the Colonial Office,
I am, &c.
LIONEL ABRAHAMS.
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