CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 209

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119860% MI ALANT DIT MO TAORMA

.STUAT

of pimie tood mut auttafafael Jneser to #iwaen oru (1)

HOGTA.. BA 300.

to atlygume odt tot atraq enode ni afuad elca edt oli exem

wol wo a et vizemON .selatiwoo both blowq otai aunb slit

.G'IGGGN TAt anodya li mi ajmowalanco emos revo NOOT

loq no si go to etsinun orang bejnaw vert ti .ou

.alliq ebam ylsey Bodnew yend 14 .00 8

mi wiriqxo. rot Juxmum moqo asel so erom a si eredT (8)

sar di osoul are goth-voli ni ensdorf sindrom oft .tləndi antido

Modasð no? ecing Jedrium a etoup wit

a mi@AT fario Lada

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como el edeluonto baw exido odal og taum grab ont

(2)

to nefunque ha «Isdel ed yd tipa al emote Joenü .enen "Two aji

Jaoula ni wetlovov dzeris Juoritix ofitod & jeroxam saibael (4)

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9. I honi's boaneqtf mit ne ono gidaeoer VINÜ

.sideofurU

curcnuing sallasi ert) to smo ront aindul enega to nedrivit a

.Temod wo a to deaupor

no klikom ut virgul via to mibaerdi orít od vnivo (+)

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Da oltu Uzor ti odam od doloitwa don cre aliquo`

odayInsun orti guide de biroq & TOYO

.Osica enon to adol

volod nok mi grodowa zo uitqno Te going au long erit ()

*1.970 10 10 Died won donte to fach boog oft du da.

pillanton end erot ord era tant eert og ei vingut erid Juu bonerio

..ol # be doote wilt gallien

.ELLADO

wid to dinos svit txen zit not dugno este vo elórfw of% (0)

orstood si fa currus. 20 .00 i doser) onteo00 to an dem refugog duoit

(3)

(2) 2000 ozs. at least of this is coming to the order of

someone in Hongkong who is not a licenses. I am watching the post

and the Steamer manifeste for suspicious articles but unless I can

get definite information aa to the Consignees' names or the

shipping marks, I am afraid there is little chance of my catching

the stuff.

(8) Labels and capsules are as important in the case of

cocaine as of morphia; but the quantities handled are less at any

rate at this source of supply.

(4) I have seen a letter from a European firm in a Treaty

Port (I do not feel justified unless H.E. insiste in giving names)

stating that "the possibility of their having to cease importing

Cocaine into........is extremely remote and any little difficulty

that now exists have been satisfactorily arranged". I cannot

vouch for the exact accuracy of the wording of the second clause

but my version gives the sense correctly. The letter also refere

to the Firm's "local stock".

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, collected from the

Hongkong Licensees, not susceptible of proof.

(1) Morphia and cocaine are not actually consumed to any

very great extent in Canton and Shanghai or in the southern and

central provinces of China except perhaps by native doctors who find in the pain-killing powers of these drugs a quick road to

promience in their profession. By far the great part of the

supply finds its way into the northern provinces and Manchuria

where it serves to make the rigorou of khai the climate and of

life generally more endurable.

Jame

(2) From Macao some of the drug goes direct to Canton and is there transhipped into steamers returning to the north: pro- bably comes back to Hongkong and is similarly transhipped here.

(3) Some,probably a large proportion, of the cocaine

which

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