COPY.
50/30817/30817
Air Mail.
Sir,
19
Geneva, December 22nd, 1937.
I have the honour to inform you that, in accordance
with a decision of the Eighteenth Assembly, the League of
Nations is sending out to China a medical mission in
connection with the control of epidemics among the civilian
and refugee population. This mission consists of three
medical units.
Certain quanitites of narcotic drugs are included
among the medical supplies of the mission, and I should be
grateful if the Government of Hong-Kong would facilitate the
entry of these drugs into Hong-Kong and their subsequent
re-export to China for the use of the above-mentioned three
League of Nations medical units.
The narcotic drugs included
among the supplies of the mission are those required for its
work, and it is proposed to import them into Hong-Kong only
for transit to China. I may mention that the Permanent
Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva has
approached the Government of China with a request that the
required import certificates be issued and presented to the
Hong-Kong authorities.
I enclose herewith certified copies of the export
licences issued for the export of the drugs in question from
the United Kingdom, from France and from Switzerland. The
export licences give complete lists of the narcotic drugs
included in the shipments.
The drugs exported from France and Switzerland were
The Colonial Secretary
Hong Kong.
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