CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927 — Page 52

ner communication on this subject should ssed to-

The Under Secretary of State for India, conomic &

Overseas

Department,

India Office,

and the following reference quoted : E. & 0.6036/27.

Telephone:-

Vitoria 8920. 1.0. Ext. No.

Telegr—

Retaxandum, London.

London, S. W. 1,

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Sir,

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INDIA OFFICE,

CRIVED

WHITEHALL,

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LONDON, SW. 1.

27 AUG 1927

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August, 1927.

I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to

(54) acknowledge the receipt of your letters of 17th and 22nd (56)

August, No. 30049/27, on the subject of Indian opium

supplied by the Governor of Hong Kong to the Government

of Macao. It is noted that the Governor has been

(41) informed in the Colonial Office telegram of 30th June

that there can be no question of India making good to the

Hong Kong Goverment the opium transferred to Macao or of

supplying opium to Macao for the purpose of repaying the

loan or for carrying on the monopoly.

2. Copy is enclosed of a letter which has been addressed

to the Foreign Office with reference to the Portuguese

(57) Ambassador's note of 15th August. The Earl of Birkenhead

presumes that the amounts of raw opium, for which the

Government of Hong Kong indents annually on the

Government of India, are not, as a fact, in excess of

the requirements of the colony, and that the 14 chests

recently provided to the Government of Macao were

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

supplied