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3.0.402. (543,452/19).
39.
92952/30
RECEIVED
26 JUL 1980
OOL. OFFIOR
Home Office,
Whitehall,
38
41
S.W.1.
25th July, 1930.
y dear Grindle
With reference to your official letter of the 17th instant (72752/30) and previous correspondence about the Chinese launch which went ashore with a cargo of opium in Hong Kong waters, I propose that as the incident is now closed,
we should communicate a brief statement of the facts to the
You will remember Opium Advisory Committee of the League.
(there was a telegram
that the seizure was reported in the press some 17 lines long in the 'Times' of the 6th March) and it is quite likely to be montiuned at Geneva. The Foreign office, whom I have consulted, agree subject to the agreement of the Colonial office. if you like, we will prepare the statement
and send it to you for your concurrence.
Yours sincerely,
malcolm Delevingne
Sir ilbert Grindle, K.C..., C.B.