CO129-508-7 Opium on Macao market 10-1-1928 - 9-11-1928 — Page 57

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No.C.No.6-E.0/28

From

V.A.Sundaram, Esq.,

To

sir,

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,

Finance Department (Central

Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.

His Majesty's Under Secretary

of State for India,

Economic and Overseas Department,

India Office, S.W.1.

Simla/New Delhi, the 14 th June 1928.

57

Revenues).

Smuggling.

Your letter No.

Opium Portuguese Possessions Import and Export, etc. -

E. & 0.3012/28, dated the 12th May 1928.

I am directed to refer to the letter quoted above, forwarding, inter alia, Macao Opium Returns, and to request that, with the permission of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, enquiries may be made, through the Foreign Office, as to the details of the

5 chests of Indian Opium stated to have been confiscated by the Macao Authorities and the result of the enquiries communicated to the Government of India.

I have, etc.,

(Sgd) V.S.Sandaram.

Deputy Secretary to the Gov. of India.