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of opium coming from India and destined for Hagao.

Control having been exercised by the British authorities

on its leaving India, the Portuguese Government is unable to

understan' why goods in transit for one of its colonies should

be subjected to further examination in Hongkong. There does

not at present exist any shipping between India and Lacao but if this should become established the olause proposed would subject

the vessels to an imdmissible control,

I venture to express the hppe that His Majesty's Government

will recognise in the reply which I have returned to your

Note the goodwill of the Portuguese Government, and the desire

which animates it of fulfilling sincerely the aims which the

signatories of the Convention of 1912 had in view,

I avail myself sto.,

(Signed) Domingos Leite Pereira.