CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12] — Page 357

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In connection with your despatch of 4th

instant to hand last night, for which many thanks. I have now some information which may be of interest to you but which I cannot

give officially.

In the first place the Colonial Secretary is allowed to practice as a lawyer and as all lawyers are subsidised by the Opium Farmer I fear the is not likely to furnish you with any useful information, and I think his reply is likely to be that the "Amherst duly shipped the Opium as reported and being out of Portuguese waters he has no more control over her.

The Governor, who is expected to surrender charge on the 15th instant, is said to have remitted the "Amherst" case to the High Court, but if he has it will be treated like the *China" case and dismissed as too many officials are in the pay of the Opium Farmer. In the first case the Attorney General is said to have been paid $40,000 for his share in burking justice.

To my mind the "Amherst case is either

a repetition of the "China" Opium-molasses fraud, or a bare faced smuggling of opium down the coast, probably at St. John's

Island.

I shall be on the look out for any more

information, and give you as soon as I cm,

I am asking the Captain of the "Siman" to

take this letter as I don't want the Mecao Censor to see it.

Yours etc..

(Sd.) W. G. Lay.