CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928 — Page 30

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Caine 28

Ellis

28/0

29.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore,

Lol Lovat.

Amery.

30231/1927 Hong Kong.

C. D

f 29 NOV.

0.

5/0 for my siqucture

Downing Street,

Dear Mr. McElderry

/

December

30

November, 1927.

I enclose a copy of a letter

from Perrins of the Home Office

DRAFT.

S.B.B.MCELDERRY, ESQ.

with its enclosure in original, and

later correspondence with Lloyd, about

what appears to be the leakage of

a confidential Hong Kong report.

You will see that Lloyd suggests that

over which the Crouble has arisen

the League document/consists of

extracts from his Annual Departmental

Report which, it appears, is laid

before the Legislative Council and

bawearer that think' possibly he

made public.

NP/

not quite

the

has misunderstood our point

which certainly,

of an

objection is not to the publication

any facts

of information, wit

courage

but to the publication of what

appears

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