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COPY.
Confidential.
Sir.
Fondosure 1.
14292
3518 APR 14.
British Legation,
167
Peking, March 5th., 1914.
I have the honour to transmit to Your Excel-
-lency herewith, for the confidential information of the
Hongkong Goverment, copy of a Circular issued by the Inspect- -or-General of Customs showing the methods adopted by European
exporters of cocaine and morphia to evade Customs detection.
Your Excellency will observe that the exporter
concerned boasts of having sent a number of shipments of these
drugs to llongkong without detection by the Customs Authorities
I have etc •
(8d.) J. N. Jordan.
His Excellency
Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G.,
Hongkong.
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