File No. 893.114/174

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)

[Telegram]

1347. Your 1616, September 4, 5 p.m. Substance telegraphed to Peking. Legation has also been advised that the information which the Department has received makes it plain that the plan in contemplation, for the disposition of opium stocks is in contravention of the spirit of the Hague draft treaty ratified by the United States and China and jeopardizes all the beneficial results that have been accomplished, at so much sacrifice, towards the suppression of the opium traffic. Legation will make representations to the Chinese Government in the above sense and has been instructed to cooperate as closely as possible with the British Minister. You will so inform Foreign Office and express the hope that British Minister at Peking will be instructed to make similar representations.

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