CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12] — Page 149

MINUTES

MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.

HOME GERIDE,

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7th December, 1923.

Dear Faskin,

I intended to suggest to you, with reference to the

Report of the superintendent of Imports and Exports it Hong Kong

enclosed with the Governor's confidential despatch of the 16th

August, that the statements on pages 1 and 5 of the Report relating to the export of French dovernment opium from Indo-China should be

brought to the notice of the Indian Government as tending to

confirm what has been suspected before, viz. that the amounts of Indian opium exported to Indo-China on French Government account

are excessiva. I do not, however, remember having done so. If you have not already brought the point to the notice of the Indian Government, perhaps you would consider the quination suggestion.

Yours sincerely,

malcole Deleriigne

J.J. Paskin, Esq., 1.0.