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REGS 2 JAN 13,
[November 29.]
SECTION 2,
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, November 29, 1912. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith copies of telegrams which have been communicated by Messrs. Sassoons on the subject of the restrictions placed by the Chinese authorities on the Indian opium trade.
Messrs. Sassuons' representative suggested verbally that a remedy might be found either by His Majesty's Government obliging the Chinese Government to take over the stocks of opium that have accumulated at Shanghai and elsewhere, or else by His Majesty's Government threatening the Chinese Government with the abolition of the additional article of the Chefoo Convention.
Messrs. Sassoons' representative was informed that neither of these suggestions, which had already been considered, commended themselves to His Majesty's Government, and that the latter had done and were doing everything in their power to induce the Chinese Government to enforce the observance of their treaty obligations,
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I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
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