CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 23

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consumption or for export, and that the import should

be strictly limited to the amount so ascertained;

(2) an offer on behalf of the Government of India to

co-operate so far as possible in any measures taken for

this purpose, either by limiting the sales of chests

of opium at Calcutta for Kwongchowwan to a fixed annual

number and confining the delivery of such opium to an

agent appointed by the French Government, as proposed

in the case of the Macao agreement, or in any other

practicable manner.

I have, &c.,

(Signed)

T. W. Holderness.