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on 52836) and tacitly approved by the
Secretary of State. The new policy was
discussed at a special Meeting of the
Inter-departmental Opium Committee, which was
called for the purpose of considering the
situation in Hong Kong with Sir C. Clementi who was then on leave, and the Committee approved the policy. (see last para. of Minutes of Meeting on the 9th July, 1928, No. 12 on 52386.) The Inter-departmental Opium Committee consists of representatives
of the Colonial Office, Foreign Office, and
Home Office under the chairmanship of the
H. O. representative, Sir Malcolm Delevingne,
who is the British representative on the League
of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium and is
expert the British Government's principal authority
on all Opium and Dangerous Drugs matters.
It will be seen that the Inter-departmental
Committee only approved the present policy pending the result of the investigations of the League of Nations Commission which is starting for the Far East at the end of this
month. This Commission was appointed at the
instance of the British Government, and the
main reason for the suggest
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for suggesting was precisely
this problem of smuggling in Hong Kong. I
think we may well await the result of the
Commission's labours before making any further
change of policy.
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5. Caine
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