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REGE 27 NOV 13 [November 10:]
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL
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No. 1.
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, November 10, 1913. WITH reference to your letter of the 25th September last, am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that it has been represented to him that the proposal of the Government of India that the number of chests of uncertificated opium to be offered for sale in 1914 should again be raised to 13,200 chests is open to some objection as tending to increase the danger of smuggling into China and so aggravate the situation created by the accumulation of stocks at Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Sir E. Grey would be glad if the Marquess of Crewe would obtain from the Government of India some information as to the contemplated distribution of these chests to non-China markets and their views, and the likelihood of the opium reaching
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
the destination for which it is intended.
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