ONFIDENTIAL.
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My Lord,
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Government House
10th. November, 1910.
I have the honour to state that
information has been received from a local representative
of Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Company that the Japanese
Government recently purchased at Constantinople through
Messrs. Sauel, Saruel and Company (London) the whole
supply of Turkish Opium then on the market, and shipped it
by the Mitsui Bussan Kalsha line via Osaka to Formosa,
where presumably it will be made inte morphine.
2.
I am attempting to verify this
information and to trace the disposal of the Opium and
will report further in due course. Meanwhile in view of
the negotiations for a further Opium Conference at the
Harue at which the question of morphine is to be especially
dealt with I lose no time in communicating this information
to
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CINE,
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