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policy so auccessfully inaugurated was to be
It was in these circumstances that
maintained.
the Hong Kong Government approached His Majesty's
Government for permission to purchase Fersian opium
and that His Majesty's Government categorically
refused.
13. One thing more than any other had
determined the date upon which the Hong Kong
Government commenced its campaign against the opium
sugglers, namely, the rejection by His Majesty's
Government of the appeal made to it by the Government
of Macao for help. I refer you to the correspondence
# beginning with my telegram of the 13th June, 1927,
and ending with your telegram of the 19th August,
1927? Macao 18, as you know, a near neighbour
of this Colony
only 50 miles away - and it la
notorious that Cacao was one of the principal
centres of the illicit traffic in opium in the
Far saat.
boreover, in signing the agreement
concluded by the First Opium Conference at Geneva,
Fortugal made reservations to Articles 1 and 6
to the effect, firstly, that she could not replace
the farming system by one of Government monopoly
until circumstances permitted and, secondly, that
she was not in a position to prohibit the export
of opium. Accordingly the Government of India decided
in April, 1925, that no further export of opium from
India to Macao would be permitted "at least until
it could be shown that a completely satisfactory
system
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