CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 168

!This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

OPIUM.

ID

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 270.)

No. 1.

[December 26.]

SECTION 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 26.)

(Telegraphic.) R.

MY telegram No. 257 of 13th December: Opium.

Peking, December 26, 1912,

Presidential order was issued yesterday. It contains nothing to which exception can be taken unless it be its omissions, but it is not calculated to check anti-opium campaign in provinces.

(Sent to India.)

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