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Enclosure/

No. 2422/1916.

Sir,

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REG 5 SEP 16

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Eongkong,

9th May, 1916.

I am directed to inform you that this Government

has ascertained that on the 21st April the S. S. "China" shipped

132 chests of opium from Macao, ostensibly consigned to Mexico.

The opium was described as prepared opium but

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it is very possible that it was raw opium. There are good

grounds to believe that it was intended to smuggle the opium

into China.

I am, etc.,

(SD.)

Claud Severn,

Colonial Secretary.

The Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs.