Mr. Caine.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Bottomley. Sir
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Mr. E. J. Harding.
Sir J. Shuckburgh,
·Sir G. Grindle.
Sir C. Davis.
52836/28
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Sir S. Watson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore. 54, 28.
Sir,
Lord Lovat.
Mr. Amery.
HONG KONG.
3
Downing Street,
12 April, 1928*
I have &c. to refer to
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paragraph 28 of your Secret despatch
of the 12th of January in which you
SECRET.
suggest that if the opium situation
GOV. CLEMENTI.
does not improve, there will be no
to option in the last resort but/rep
repeal
Relevant part of Memo
2 drafts.
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the Opium Ordinances and to abandon
the attempt to control opium
consumption with a view to eventual
suppression. The abandonment of the
opium monopoly has been suggested
on more general grounds by Mr. J.D.
Jloyd, Superintendent of Imports
and Exports, in a Memorandum written
a
in response to the request for
observations