CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928 — Page 17

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"fee of $3,000 per ton was offered. The

"persons concerned were afraid, however,

"that there would be difficulty in gaining

"the sanction of the French Parliament

"in Paris and perhaps the matter was not

"taken any further. "Extract ends

•

You will realise the undesirability

of such reference to a foreign power based

only on summise in a published Government

report and I shall therefore be glad to

know whether the version of the report

containing the above statement is

authentic and as published in Hong Kong

and if so to know why the passages in

question were included .

If above version is authentic the

references to French Government in the

report should be deleted before it is

printed in the Annual Volume of Departmen-

tal Reports.