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province, and to my reply of the 27th, stating that until I received the reports of the British delegates I was unable to discuss the closing of the province.
I have now received reports giving the result of the tours of investigation in Fukien of Messrs. Turner and Blackburn, accompanied by Chinese representatives of the metropolitan and provincial Governments. As a result, I am willing to agree that Indian opium shall not be conveyed into the province of Fukien, in accordance with the terms of article 3 of the agreement of 1911, and would propose that this arrangement should take effect from the 1st May, 1914.
I avail, &c.
J. N. JORDAN.
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Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
Sir,
Foreign Ofice, May 14, 1914. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 9th ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Vienna, forwarding copy of a note addressed to the Netherlands Minister by the Austro-Hungarian Government declaring their intention of adhering as soon as possible to the International Opium Convention.
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The declaration appears to Sir E. Grey to be satisfactory, and, subject to the concurrence of the Board of Trade, he would propose that the convention should be ratified by His Majesty's Government so soon as the adherence of Bermuda, the sole outstanding British colony, has been obtained.
A letter, of which a copy is enclosed, has been addressed to the Colonial Office with a view to securing the adherence of this colony with as little delay as possible.
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
* Mr. Wingfield, No. 85, May 7, 1914,
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