CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 181

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Home Office,

Whitehall,

S.W.1.

22nd November, 1926.

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My dear Grindle,

In view of the leakge of drugs which still appears to be going on through the Free Ports, or some of them, the Opium Advisory Committee, at its meeting last May, decided to ask the Secretariat of the League of Nations to prepare as complete a list as possible of Free Ports and Free Zones and a summary of the systems by which the

I have this control of opium and drugs in those ports is exercised. morning received a letter from the Secretariat (the matter appears to have been overlooked by them until recently) saying that the Transit Section has compiled a list of Free Forts among which Hong Kong and Dar-es-Salam are mentioned, and asking me to let them have information. Will you advise me as to the reply I can give? I do not remember ever hearing anything about Dar-es-Salam, but as regards Hong Kong I was under the impression that the whole of the Port comes under the full system of control provided for in the Hong Kong Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinances.

Yours sincerely,

Malcolm Delerigne

Sir Gilbert Grindle, K.O.M.G., C.B.

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