CO129-510-8 Policy on sale of Opium 12-1-1928 - 24-7-1928 — Page 28

Mr. Caine.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr. Bottomley. Sir

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Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir J. Shuckburgh,

·Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

52836/28

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Sir S. Watson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore. 54, 28.

Sir,

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

HONG KONG.

3

Downing Street,

12 April, 1928*

I have &c. to refer to

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paragraph 28 of your Secret despatch

of the 12th of January in which you

SECRET.

suggest that if the opium situation

GOV. CLEMENTI.

does not improve, there will be no

to option in the last resort but/rep

repeal

Relevant part of Memo

2 drafts.

?C

the Opium Ordinances and to abandon

the attempt to control opium

consumption with a view to eventual

suppression. The abandonment of the

opium monopoly has been suggested

on more general grounds by Mr. J.D.

Jloyd, Superintendent of Imports

and Exports, in a Memorandum written

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in response to the request for

observations