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exact information as to the present situation there.

He

I have spoken to Sir Louis Kershaw at the India Office about the application.o does not think they are very much concerned. Like myself. he is deeply suspicious of the authorities at Macao and of all their ways, and he says emphatically that there can be no question of the Indian Government either making good to the Hong Kong Government the amount of Indian opium transferred to Macao or supplying any Indian opium to Macao for the purpose of repaying the loan or for carrying on their Monopoly.

I should be inclined myself to mention the above considerations to the Governor of Hong Kong and to leave it to his discretion to act as he thinks best in the circumstances, as he and his officials are the

siluation only people who are thoroughly acquainted with the aircarnatenees. It is understood, of course, that only a small loan for the immediate necessities at the commencement of the new system on the 1st July cooceld

would will be made, and that it will not be repeated.

in any case

J.J. Paskin, Esq.

Yours sincerely,

malcolice Delevigne