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Dear Mr. Fletcher,
Many thanks for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the despatch enclosed. The Colonial Secretary who signed the latter went home last week, and another lawyer, Dr. Alfredo Rodrigues dos Santos, has succeeded him.
In view of what I have already told you, you
may be interested in the following copy of a letter I sent the Inspector General on the 31st July:-
"Opium Smuggling: 3.5. "China" Opium-Molasses Case: the other night Cabral met on the bund a young man named E. Fernandes, who had been a Clerk in the Opium Superintendency during the "China" case, and who, dissatisfied with his treatment by the Opium Farmer, has joined Jardine, Matheson & Co. and been appointed to Taingtau. He wanted information as to the northern port from Cabral, and, after he had received it, the talk veered round to this celebrated case, and the ex-clerk confirmed all our ideas as to the from. He said that opium was never shipped at all, and that if he had been properly questioned by the Attomey-General in Court he could have shown that the point that that official laid so much stress on, namely, that the chests being sealed on departure from here, and the ones sent back from Shanghai being unsealed, substi- -tution had taken place on board, had no foundation in fact as the modus operandi was, when en route to the steamer far out in Chinese waters, to invite the guard to a good meal, and, when they were busily engaged eating, to cut off the sealed bands round the chests, and drop them overboard in a bag with a heavy stone in it. The chests themselves were thrown overboard from the steemer during
■ conveniest night under the supervision of a member of the Opium Farm travelling as a passenger. Before the trial the opium people came to Fernandes to tell him what to say, but he declined to tell lies, and said he would be loyal to them in not volunteering
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