CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917 — Page 250

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

OPIUM.

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CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

[April 20.]

SECTION 1.

Foreign Office to Edinburgh Committee for Suppression of Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic.

Bir,

Foreign Office, April 20, 1917.

I AM directed by Lord Robert Cecil to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 11th and 18th instant on the subject of the export of morphis to Japan,

I am to inform you in reply that the matter is being given most serious considera- tion in this Department, and that you will be informed if and when it

proves possible to surmount the difficulties which, as must be apparent to your committee, surround this question.

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I am, &c.

R. GRAHAM.

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