CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 362

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,į

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[11917]

No. 1.

r 13187 Iar co

11 APR 14

March 17.

SECTION 3.

Sir,

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received March 17.)

Downing Street, March 16, 1914. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 21st ultimo, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to request you to inform Secretary Sir Edward Gry that the Opium Convention of 1912 may now be signed in respect of Southern

Northeru Rhodesia, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland.

I am, &c.

HENRY LAMBERT.

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