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In any further communication

ou this subject, please quote

No. 38081/12.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State.

Foreign Office.

6. Wingfield.

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FOREIGN OFFICE

23rd. September, 1912.

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Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter 27450/12 of the 9th. instant en-

closing copies of reports from the Governor of Hongkong res-

pecting the opium traffic with Macao.

I am to transmit herewith, to be laid before Mr. Secre-

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tary Harcourt copies of two despatches from His Majesty's

Chargé d'Affaires at Lisbon on the subject of the representa-

tions which he had, under instructions, addressed to the

Portuguese Government.

In Sir E. Grey's opinion it is probable, in view of the

private note addressed by Colonel Freire d'Andrade to Mr.

Wingfield, copy of which is enclosed in the latter's despatch

No. 130 of the 2nd. instant, that the Portuguese Government

will in their official reply maintain that Macao needs a far

larger quantity of opium than the Governor of Hongkong is

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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