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of opium coming from India and destined for Hagao.
Control having been exercised by the British authorities
on its leaving India, the Portuguese Government is unable to
understan' why goods in transit for one of its colonies should
be subjected to further examination in Hongkong. There does
not at present exist any shipping between India and Lacao but if this should become established the olause proposed would subject
the vessels to an imdmissible control,
I venture to express the hppe that His Majesty's Government
will recognise in the reply which I have returned to your
Note the goodwill of the Portuguese Government, and the desire
which animates it of fulfilling sincerely the aims which the
signatories of the Convention of 1912 had in view,
I avail myself sto.,
(Signed) Domingos Leite Pereira.