CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 426

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

C.O

425

15073

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[16443]

No. 1.

[April 10.] MAY

SECTION 1.

Sir,

India Office to Foreign Ofice. ~(Received April 10.)

India Office, April 9, 1913.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st April, 1913, and, in reply, to inform you that, in view of the considerations pointed out by Sir Edward Grey, his Lordship concurs in the proposal that the reply to the China Association should be made in the terms of the draft letter forwarded by you.

I am, &c.

T. W. HOLDERNESS.

[2879 -1]