CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 456

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

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OPIUM.

REG 8 MAY 14

CONFIDENTIAL.

[March 26.]

SECTION 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir A. Johnstone.

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No. 1.

(No. 10. Treaty.) Sir,

Foreign Office, March 26, 1914.

I TRANSMIT to you herewith copies of letters from the Colonial Office, as marked in the margin, and I request that you will take the necessary steps for signing the International Opium Convention of 1912 on behalf of Zanzibar, and of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland protectorate, and Swaziland.

* Colonial Office, March 10; ditto, March 16, 1914,

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I am, &c.

E. GREY.

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