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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Rect 3 APR 3
[February 14]
SECTION 1.
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Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
(No. 53.) (Telegraphic.)
Foreign Office, February 14, 1913. YOUR telegram No. 30 of 1st February, and Viceroy of India's of 10th February. You may inform Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government agree to Indian trade with China in opium being formally extinguished, and to establishment by Chinese Government of an opium monopoly having total suppression as object. But their agreement is strictly conditional on merchants' claims being reasonably and fairly met by the arrangements for acquiring stocks.
His Majesty's Government concur in the hope of the Government of India that the chests, in respect of which the right of export was sold in November and December last in Bombay, will be reckoned as part of the stocks to be taken over.
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