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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 18th December, 1923.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honour to forward the enclosed
copy of a minute by Mr. J. D. Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports and Exports, covering a report on the results of the examination of a number of books and documents seized
in a raid on the premises of illicit dealers in opium.
2. This report appears to me to be of great interest as it affords the most detailed and complete record that I have yet seen of the methods of business of professional smugglers and it should I think be of value to the League of Nations as showing the enormous dimensions
of the trade in China.
.. I have expressed to Mr. Lloyd my appreciation of the value of this report which has entailed a great deal of hard and tedious work in translation and I should be glad if I might convey to him an expression of Your Grace's approbation. Mr. Lloyd's work as Superintendent of Imports and Exports has been consistently good.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,
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I have the honour to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient
humble servant,
78. Statts
Governor, &o.