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HOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 14th September, 1922.
Assembly of the League of Nations to make allowance for past illicit consumption, and I presume you would not agree to the proposition.
Yours sincerely,
maleoler Delevigne
90 33137
Bir.
With reference to your despatch No.222 of
the 18th July and your telegrem of the 9th September, 1
1.45678 have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 11th September, car. 45679
a paraphrase of which is enclosed, on the subject of this Government's importation of prepared opium.
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An increase in Government sales ie, in
present circumstances, no indication of an increase in individual consumption. It is an indication merely that preventive measures are for the time being increasing the smuggler's risk, and therefore lessening the advantage of cheapness which leads consumers of the poorer classes to
prefer the contraband to the legitimate article.
3. You are aware that large quantities of
Persian and Turkish opium are being shipped to ports in the Far East. Reports on the subject have been made in Confidential despatches from this Government of the 21st April, 19th May, 17th July, 21st August, 29th August, and 4th September; and there are doubtless many shipments regarding which this Government receives no information. I may mention that the Peninsular ard Oriental Steam Navigation Company have very recently carried 150 chests of Persian opium in the 8, 8. "Kalyan" from Bombay to Kobe.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,
&c.,
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