No. 146.
(F 3023/310/87)
sir,
Feb. 24
Co HO Mch. 2.
To 4.0. Medry
H.O.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.V.1.
7th April, 1927
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With reference to my despatch No. 359 of
November 16th laet regarding the supply of Indian opitam
opå
to Maono, I trammit herewith copies of correspondence
between the Colonial Office, the Home Office and this
department, together with a copy of a report submitted to
the League of Nations by the Fortuguese Government on the
traffic in opium for 1925, from which it will be seen that
considerable supplies of such opium are still ava ilable
in the colony although direct importation from India
ceased nearly two years ago, viz. in April 1925.
2. I will roca 11 that in 1926 the Government of
India decided gradually to extinguish her opium trade by
annual reductions and to limit her future, diminishing,
exports to countries with which she had an existing agreement.
Those countries, vis, Malaya, Hongkong, Ceylon, the State
of North Borneo, Sarawak, Siam, Indo-China and the
Netherlands East Indies, which ressive Indian opium
annually, are bound by article VI of the Opium Agreement
of 1925, to which all the above, ine lud ing Portugal, are
parties, not to permit re-exportation. This agreement
did not, it is true, came into operation till 28th July
1986, and then only as between Prance, Great Britain and
India. Portugal did not retify till 13th September, 1926.
Prior, however, to
to the new Agreement coming into force, the
export /
His Excellency
The Right Honourable
Sir Lancelot Carnegie, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G..
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Lisbon.
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