CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 567

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POREIGN OFFICE, 8.#.1.

April 29 th 1921

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sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your Memorandum of March 31st 1921, enquiring

whether the information is accurate that, at the

request of the Hong Kong Government, the Government

of India have agreed to renew the agreement for a

direct supply of opium at a fixed price for five years

beginning from 1921, and expressing the hope of the

Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government may

see their way so to limit the supply of opium to Hong

Kong and regulate its export thence as to preclude

the possibility of smuggling to the mainland of China,

2.

The information that the Government of Hong Kong

have requested, and the Goverment of India have agreed

to, renewal of the agreement for a direct supply of

raw opium to the Government of Hong Kong at a fixed

price for five years, from January 1st 1921, is correct.

Under the new agreement, the supply of raw opium

from India te Hong Kong is now reduced to a maximum of

Kyuin Wellington Koe, Esq.,

etc.,

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