CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 372

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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

SECTION 1.

[10640]

(No. 77.) Sir,

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

Foreign Office, March 12, 1913. I HAVE received your despatch No. 38 of the 23rd January last, respecting the alleged cultivation of opium on the Burma-Tunnan frontier and smuggling of the drug into Tunnan.

The Government of India have been requested to furnish a statement of their views on the subject, which will be communicated to you in due course.

approve the terms of your note of the 22nd January to the Wai-chiao Pu.

I

[2850 m-1]

I am,

&c.

E. GREY.