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NO CONFIDENTIAL.
JeMAY 020 001, OFFIC
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 31st March, 1928.
noll
Enclosures Nos.1-3.
Sir,
In compliance with the request made in your
telegram of the 7th March, I attach copies of returns
als to 12ceived from Macao by the Superintendent of Imports and
Cpmy tendi. To
3.126.
Sir 14. Derevingue
3.129
1.0.
Exports since the inauguration of the official monopoly in
that Colony on 1st July last.
2.
The ten and four chests of Indian opium shewn
as imported in July and August respectively are, no doubt, the chests supplied by this Government, concerning which you have already been fully informed. I have no information as to the five stated to have been confiscated (nor was I told of the confiscation when appealed to for the extra four chests). You will observe that the 80,000 taels of raw Persian opium, mentioned in my secret despatch of 21st December, 1927, are not recorded in the returns.
No returns for any period subsequent to November have yet been received. This may be due to the
fact that the monopoly, being bare of raw material, has
suspended its returns. Or it may merely be due to the customary dilatoriness of the Macao authorities in sending
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
the
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