CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5] — Page 176

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CONFIDENTIAL.

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21st. Marcu, 1914.

I have the nonour to acknowledge the receipt

of Your Sicellancy's Confidential Despatch of the bth. March anclosing a copy of a Circular issud by the Inspector-General of Custome reistive to the smuggling of cocaine and morphia.

2.

is song song is for practical purposes a free

port there is no detailed examination of goods arriving, which

corresponds in any way with the examination made by the Chinese

Custom Jervice. This Goverment is, b you are aware, fully alive to its obligations in the matter of the trade in cocaine, morphia, and similar promisited articles, and it has been feina that the

most satisfactory method of detection lies in the off ring of

large rewards for information anu in the careful watching of

suspected persons. Seisures, wuch are not infrequent, of morphin

anu codzine packed as noda ash and as word wool, being two of the

methode described, bare in fact boen made.

Britannic Kajesty's Minister,

PEKIN G.

I have the honour so ve,í.

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Your Excellency 'a most

obedient Dervant,

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