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OPIUM.
REG2 14 DEC171.
[June 15.]
SECTION 1.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Sir,
to
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.*
Foreign Office, June 15, 1917. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the smuggling of morphia into China through Japan, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Balfour to transmit
you herewith
copy
of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo,† in which be recommends for the serious consideration of His Majesty's Government the advisability of refusing all permits for export to Japan or to Dairen unless certificates are obtained from the Japanese Home Office or the authorities of the Kuantung leased territory showing that the morphia is for actual consumption in Japan and Dairen and vicinity for medical purposes only.
As Sir C. Greene does not anticipate that this step would cause any serious outcry, there would appear to be no reason why the Board of Trade should not begin to make the issue of licences dependent on the fulfilment of the condition suggested.
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
* Also to Home Office.
† No. 263.
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