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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
24090
REC?
REG 14 JUL 13
[May 27.]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received May 27.)
India Office, May 27, 1913. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th May on the subject of the Macao Opium Agreement, and, in reply, to inform you that his Lordship sees objections to concluding the agreement for definite periods of five years, as the power of increasing the opium import given in certain conditions by articles 5 and 6 leaves an element of uncertainty as to the amount of opium that will be actually required. His Lordship is, however, willing that the period of notice should be extended to twelve months, as suggested in my letter of the 8th May, 1913.
I am,
&c.
T. W. HOLDERNESS.
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