CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 552

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

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OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[22588]

No. 1.

[May 20.]

SECTION 1.

Sir,

Board of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received May 20.)

Board of Trade, May 19, 1914.

I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th May, with its enclosures, on the subject of the International Opium

Convention.

Having regard to the satisfactory character of the Austro-Hungarian note, the Board concur in Sir E. Grey's proposal that the convention should be ratified by His Majesty's Government as soon as the adherence of Bermuda has been obtained,

I am, &c.

GEO. J. STANLEY.

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