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RECE Prop 31 MAR 13

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 5th. March, 1913.

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Sir,

07/2-13

With reference to my Confidential Despatch of the 3rd. of December last, I have the honour to transmit the en-

-closed paraphrase of a telegram which I sent you today on the

subject of a conversation I had recently with Senhor de Freitas

who is on his way to take up his appointment as Minister for Portugal at Peking.

2.

Senhor de Freitas has spent nearly a month at Macao studying the situation there and on his return he told me that his Government has instructed him to ascertain unofficially from me my views as to the limitations to be placed on the Opium

Farmer at the next letting of the Opium Farm there in the matter of

the amount of opium which he should be allowed to use. Senhor de

Freitas said that if a figure could be agreed upon with this Govern- -ment the negotiations in Lisbon and London on the subject would be

much facilitated.

Endssure

3.

Accordingly on the 28th. ultimo I had a conver-

-sation with the Minister a note of which is enclosed and as he

said that he would telegraph a summary of it to Lisbon I thought it

proper to inform you by telegraph of the gist of the interview.

I am still of the opinion expressed in my

4.

Confidential Despatch of the 15th. October last that 150 chests 72. per annum would be an ample allowance for the local consumption at

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Macao.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

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