Dear Paskin,
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17th October, 1927.
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I enclose a copy of League document 0.0.669
which was circulated by the Secretariat to the Opium
Advisory Committee whilst we were at Geneva.
It purports
to be a memorandum by Lloyd on opium smuggling into
Hongkong and, as you will see, its contents are such that Delevingne could not let it be thought that the British
Government were privy to its circulation.
He therefore
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called attention to it in private session and asked for
an explanation from the Secretariat.
Dame Rachel Crowdy
explained that she received it from the Chief of the
Californian Customs.
His letter to her was read out.
In it he said that he had received the memorandum from
the offices of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line and that in
addition to Dame Rachel he had forwarded copies to
various private individuals in the United States of
America.
Dame Rachel also explained that owing to the
J. J. Paskin, Esq., M.C.
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