Enough to pop secreto With increased profits higher bribes
would be
possible & we
Could not compete without greatly increasing our scale of rewards whereas if deprived of the open revenue we could not afford to manitani the prommet scale morcover there would be
thousands of somall smugglers of Chinese opium. on account of the increased profit they could afford to Bribe the Claire Polian & Revenue offfeurs Eume. if there livre incorruptible which in
evasion would
not the case evasion
be easy owing to the facility of landing from bosto in hundu
of places
a
Could any
the coasto Prohibitio
le made effectit by
grong the Police practically
unlimited
pover
A
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DECODE
of a telegram from the
Dated
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Received in the Colonial Office at
on
do so
would
Cause
such
popular indignation that not only would
every
482
Chinese
be in sympathy with the Smugglers but he satisfactory
relations
with
of the Government
The people would
greatly endangered
May I
The Soundest
be
suggest
that
is
to
course
undertake that we will prohibit
the use of opium provided that Macas and
Indo-China
to search
persnes
and premises
and to
do
do the same
as
soon
as