COPT
454,703/9.
HOME OFFICE,
WHITHALL, S..1.
40
4th December, 1925.
Sir,
I am directed by Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks
to say, for the information of Secretary Sir Austen
Chamberlain, that his attention has been drawn to a report
in the issue of The Times newspaper of Wednesday November
27th from its correspondent in New York that the Customs'
Agents have seized 445 tins of opium marked' with the name
of a Chinese Merchant in Macao on the s.s. "Eastern Prince"
of the Prince Line on its arrival at New York on November
23rd.
As the Prince Steamship Line is a British line and the seizure would appear to present unusual features, Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be glad if His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington may be instructed to obtain from the United States Government full details as to the seizure, and in particular, as to the persons believed to be behind the smuggling, the origin of the drug and the port at which it is thought the
opium was placed on board the "Jastern Prince".
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
6.) MALCOLM DELEVINGNE