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CONFIDENTIAL.
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No.. 1.
[February 18.]
SECTION 2.
Foreign Office to Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co.
Gentlemen,
Foreign Office, February 18, 1915. WITH reference to your letter of the 27th ult., respecting the alleged movement in favour of the immediate closing of all the retail opium shops in the Shanghai International Settlement, I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that His Majesty's Minister at Peking was instructed some weeks ago to intimate to the Municipal Council at that place that the stocks of opium in bond will automatically be sealed as soon as the three last Chinese provinces have been declared free of cultivation under the provisions of the Opium Agreement, and that the Chinese Government will no doubt also hold that the opium shops in the settlement should be immediately closed at the same time.
I am,
&c.
B. ALSTON.
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