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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[55665]
No. 1.
¡December 30.]
SECTION 3.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.—(Received December 30.)
India Office, December 28, 1912. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st December, and in reply to inform you that his lordship concurs in Sir Edward Grey's proposal to approve the action of His Majesty's Minister at Peking in the matter of the attempt of the British opium merchants to open a retail opium shop at Hangchow.
With reference to the letter from the Wai-chiao Pu of the 27th November, copy of which is enclosed with your letter, the Marquess of Crewe feels some doubt whether the action taken by the Chinese Government in "forwarding, for the information and guidance of Kiangai and other provinces, copies of the original text of the Wai-wu Pu's circular telegram of last year' can be construed as equivalent to the issue of the desired instructions to the provinces which are the chief offenders against the stipulations of the opium agreement. I am to suggest that, if Sir Edward Grey sees no objection, Sir John Jordan should be requested to state whether he regards this action as meeting satisfactorily his demand for recirculation of the instructions of June 1911, and whether he anticipates that it will be effective in preventing breaches of the agreement by provincial Governments.
I have, &c.
LIONEL ABRAHAMS.
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