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1 OCT 1927
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS
September 28th, 1927.
My dear Grindle,
The Portuguese representative on the
Opium Advisory Committee has told Sir John Campbell,
the Fresident of the Committee, that a telegram
dated the 22nd or 23rd September has been received
from the Governor of Macao stating that the late
opium farmer has been publishing statements con-
cerning the details of the opium business there
which are of a highly defamatory character, and
that the Macao Government are taking appropriate
measures.
The details were not given but they
are no doubt of a very informing kind, and you
might like to let the authorities at Hong Kong know
in case they have not heard about it, though prob-
ably they have. In any case we shall be very
glad to know what the farmer has been saying and
(byklegram:) perhaps you would ask the Hong Kong authorities
to send home a report about it.
The Portuguese representative also
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pressed Sir John Campbell to obtain from the Indian
Government a reversal of their decision not to
export Indian opium to Macao and said that if they
could get no Indian opium and if, as a result of the
decision of the Persian Government to restrict the
cultivation of opium in Persia, the Persian supplies
of opium fall off, Portugal would be forced to start
the cultivation of opium in Timor. This would
interest the Hong Kong authorities also.
Yours sincerely
malcoline Debeiigne
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