CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 571

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

OPIUM.

REC

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[May 45

CONFIDENTIAL.

SECTION 1.

[54352]

(No. 113.) (Telegraphic.)

No. 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 4.)

MY telegram No. 105 of 2nd May.

Peking, May 4, 1915.

Wilton telegraphs from Shanghai that he has ascertained privately that opium combination and a delegate of Chinese Government have come to an arrangement whereby latter will receive 3,500 dollars per chest on all stocks delivered after 1st May, in return for free circulation in provinces still open.

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