OOPY.
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Enclosure 1.
221
No. 908 F. E.
Government of India.
Finance
Department.
simis, the 16th. August, 1916.
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The Honourable Ir. H. P. Howard, C.I.E., 1.0.5.,
offg. Secretary to the Government of India,
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
I am directed to reply to your letter No. 2422,
dated the 29th. March, 1918, reporting that 170 obests of
opium ocneigned to Mexico were detained in Hongkong and
re-shipped to Dalcutta.
2.
The Government of Indie understand that the object
which your Government have in view in making this reference
is to ensure that their regulations in the matter of opium
are not svaded. I am to explain that ordinarily the Government
of India accept the declared destination of opium purchesed
at auction sales and privately exported. They, however, fully
appreciate the anxiety of your Government as to the possibility
of opium being smuggled into Hongkong, and will be glad to
adopt such precautions as are possible in order to prevent
this. Thus, they will be prepared not to grent export passte
to Hongkong in circumstances which imply an intention on the
part of the exporter to disregard the Hongkong Government's
regulations, and also to inform that Government by telegraph,
of all shipaente actually made to Hong Kong.
B.
The particular consignment referred to in your
Ιπ letter seems to stand on a somewhat different footing.
that oase the opium was consigned to Mexico, and so far as car
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