CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928 — Page 42

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rush of work in connection with the Assembly she had

not examined the memorandum closely.

Had she done

so she would not have sanctioned its circulation.

In view particularly of the references to

the French, Delevingne asked that all copies be

destroyed both by the Secretariat and the members of

the Committee, but at the special request of Pinkney

Tuck, (the American Consul at Geneva and observer on

the Committee) and Sato, the Japanese delegate, who

both wished to make enquiries, he agreed to their

sending a copy to their Governments for confidential

use in making such enquiries on the understanding

that no other use was made of it.

Delevingne asks me to say that we cannot

trace here that we have ever received an identical

report of Lloyd's, and to enquire whether the Colonial

Office have yet received the report.

He suggests that in the first instance you

will probably wish to ask Lloyd if he is able to throw

any light on the incident.

Yours sincerely,

Modernis