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The Portuguese Ambassador.
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Your Excelleney,
I have the honour to inform Your Bzoelleney
that the request contained in your note No. 714
of August 18th last, namely that His Majesty'a
Government should authorise the Governor of
Hongkong to supply the Meaco Government with
ten cemes of Indian opium monthly, has been
carefully considered by His Majesty's Government.
8. In reply, I have the honour to state that
Him Majesty's Government regret that the
provisions of Article 6 of the Opium agreement
of 1925, to which both portugal and rest
Britain ere parties, binding the signatories
not to permit the export of opium from countries
into which it is imported for moking purposes,
preclude them from acceding to this request.
3. As regards the question of the direct supply
from India to Haeno of Indian opium, the
attitude of the Government of Indie in this
mattor remains unchanged.
As the Portugue se
Government were informed by His Majesty's
Ambassador st Lisbon towards the close of last
your of the gronds upon which this attitude is
based, it would seem unnecessary to recapitula te
them once again in fall to you. It remains,
however, the definite polley of the Governmen t
of /