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Confidential
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Singapore,
24th April, 1919.
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With reference to my confidential despatch of the 31st
March, in which. I addressed you on the subject of the trade in
Persian opium, I have the honour to forward for Your Excellency*
perusal a copy of a letter, with enclosures, which I have receiv
ed from Messre Cheniram Jesraj of Bombay regarding th applicatio
by them for permission to tranship at Singapore consignments of
Persian opium to "Japan, New York, etc.
2. This letter and its enclosures seen to me to bear out
strongly my view that the problem of the opium traffic is one
which should be taken up by His Majesty'a Government with the
countries in which the opium is produced. In this connection
I invite attention to the letter from the Bombay Custom House
to Mr Cheniram Jesraj.
3.
My difficulty in dealing with the present application
is incréased by the fact that I am advised that, as the law of
the Colony now stands, I have no legal power to prohibit the
transhipment of any opium at this port. I replying to Mes82 6.
Cheniram Jesraj to the effect that their letter is under consi-
deration.
la Excellency
The Right Honourable
Sir John Jordan, etc.
I have, ato.
(Sd) Arthur Young.
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