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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 164.) Sir,

No. 1.

[May 8.]

SECTION 2

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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 8.) RECE

Peking, Ap REFERRING to my despatch No. 159 of the 18th April, I have the honour to state that I have instructed Mr. E. C. Wilton to undertake the joint investigation of poppy cultivation in the province of Anhui, under article 4 of the Opium Agreement of May 1911.

Mr. J. L. Smith and Mr. N. Fitzmaurice have been similarly deputed for the province of Shantung.

Mr. Wilton will arrive in Anhui on the 24th April; Mr. Smith and Mr. Fitz- maurice will start from Tainan as soon after that date as possible.

The Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior have each appointed delegates for Auhui and Shantung, and provincial delegates will be added to assist in the joint investigation.

I enclose correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu, exchanging copies of the instructions issued to the British officers and the Chinese metropolitan delegates, together with copy of a supplementary despatch addressed to Mr. J. L. Smith, giving an outline in some detail of the duties of himself and Mr. Fitzmaurice.

I have, &c.

J. N. JORDAN.

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Enclosure in No. 1.

Memorandum communicated to Wal-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan.

SIR JOHN JORDAN has the honour to inform the Wai-chiao Pu, in reference

to his memorandum of the 1st February and their reply of the 13th February, that

he has instructed Mr. E. C. Wilton, C.M.G., Special Opium Commissioner, to carry out, in company with the Chinese deputies, the joint investigation of opium culti- vation in the province of Anhui. Mr. Wilton will leave Tsinan on the 23rd April and arrive at Peng-pu (Anhui) the following day.

Sir John Jordan has also appointed Mr. J. M. Smith, His Majesty's consul at Tsinan, and Mr. N. Fitzmaurice, consular assistant, to carry out, in company with the Chinese deputies, the joint investigation of opium cultivation in the province of Shantung. Mr. Smith has been instructed to start from Tsinan at as early a date as possible after the 23rd April.

Sir John Jordan has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of copies of the instruc. tions issued for the guidance of the Chinese deputies selected to accompany Mr. Wilton, and to forward copies of his instructions to the latter and to Mr. Smith.

Peking, April 17, 1913.

Sir,

Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Mr. Wilton.

Peking, April 16, 1913.

I HAVE to instruct you to proceed on a tour of investigation into the cultivation

of the poppy in Anhui, jointly with officers appointed by the Chinese Government in the terins of article 4 of the Opium Agreement of May, 1911.

You will arrive at Peng-pu (Anhui) on the 25th April, and proceed thence on your tour of investigation.

You will lose no time and spare no effort in visiting, together with the Chinese deputies, the localities in which the information at your disposal would indicate the possibility that the poppy is being cultivated.

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