No.310-
COTERMS OF INITA
REDAREI spent AND TUTORY
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From
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The Hon'ble Mr 0.5 Low T
T C.S.
Secretary to the Government of Indi
The Secretasy,
Teramus and Statistics Department,
India Office.
With reference to the despatches to the Right Fonourable the Secretary of State for Indi., specifial in the marrin I
am directed to invite your attention to the enclosed extract
from paragraph 42 of the Report of the Administration| of the Excise Department in Burma for the year 1914-15 on the subject of the
Despatch from the Department of Commerce
and Industry, No.26, dated the 11th May 1911.
Despatch from the Finance Department, No.285 dated the 23rd November
1911, paragraph 30.
illicit supply of cocaine to this country.
2. The remarks in the Burma report regarding the large reserve stocks existing in India and the Far East is generally endorsed by other Local Governments, and owing to the existence of these stocks the cessation of supplies from Germany and Austria has not as yet had the effect which was
Hert
hoped at the outbreak of war; but prices are stated to have risen very greatly, and there is therefore reason to apprehend that new sources of supply may be created, for example in Japan.
3. I am to forward for your information copy of a demi-official letter from the Collector of Customs at Calcutta and to state that the Government of India are fully aware from the correspondence forwarded with yourletter
No. 5009, dated the 4th December 1914, of the inadvisability
of