CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 640

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December 2.1919. the

I am directed by Karl Gurzen of Kød)esten ta ledge receipt of your letter R & & 6727 af the 24th ulti and to inform you in reply that His Majesty'a ze recentų at Faris and Tokie have been instructed te propose to French and Japanese Goverments the adoption of a fixed rate of Rs.4,000 per chest for the sale of opiu under contemplated agreements.

With regard to the proposal that the Government at Portugal should now be invited to enter into an agreement on similar lines, I mm to state that Lord Curmo le quite prepared to initiate negotiations to that end. same time I am to mugɛest that the allowance of five

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hundred chests a year laid down in 1913 is somewhat sessive, and that the present oceanim might offer a favourable opportunity for proposing a reductim. In 1913

Under Secretary of State,

India Office.

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