CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 6

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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

REC

C.O

24090

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[April 30 14 JUL 13

SECTION 1.

[19108]

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan,

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(No. 121.)

(Telegraphic.) R.

Foreign Office, April 30, 1913.

YOUR telegram No. 99 of the 25th April: Opium. Please explain in what manner stocks are being worked off. Is it by legitimate trade, or otherwise, and is their destination exclusively Chinese markets?

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