CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 79

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\ANSE25 SER 12,

LISBON.

6th September, 1912.

777

Sar:-

I have the honour to report, with reference to

your telegram No. 21 of the 4th instant,

that I

Vesterday pressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs

for an early reply to the representations made to him

His

as to the importation of opium into Macao.

Excellency repeated the statement, already made to

me by Colonel Freire d'Andrade, that they had figures

that any reductions in the import into Macao

llowed by increases of the importation intu

Kung; but he promised to hasten the reply to our

teb..

I have received from Colonel Freire d'Andrade a

private suggestion that Macao should receive "the same

number of chests as Hongkong, without the power to

increase the number possessed by the opium farmer of

that Colony". I venture to request your instruction

as to what answer should be made to this enquiry.

The Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.G., M.P.,

BCC.

&C.,

&c.

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