COPY.
Enclosure No. 1.
75°
Government House,
Hong Kong.
10th February, 1928.
C. de Albuquerque, Esq.,
Consul-General for Portugal,
Hong Kong.
Dear Mr. Albuquerque,
My attention has been drawn to a statement
in the "Seculo" of the 8th December last that Dr. Augusto de Vasconcellos, when lately in Paris, moved the French Minister for the Colonies to telegraph to the Government of Indo-China directing it to furnish to Macao all the opium that Colony required. The "Seculo" further stated
eement that as a result of Dr. Vasconcellos' action an agre in regard to the supply of opium had been signed by Indo- China and Macao. I should be much obliged if you would let me know whether the statements made by the "Seculo" are correct, and whether the Colony of Macao has succeeded in solving the problem of obtaining supplies of opium for
its Government monopoly.
Yours sincerely,
sd. C. CLEMENTI.