TNAG-0415-FCO40-461-Review-of-narcotics-problem-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 31

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NICK 1913

SOUTH

CHINA

MORNING POST APRIL 25 th '73

says 'thanks'

The Governor. Sir Murray MacLehose. yesterday sent a message to Saigon, thanking all those who took part in the seizure of a major cargo of narcotics bound for Hongkong from Thailand last week.

The drugs, six tons of opium and 281 lbs of morphine, were seized when a trawler was intercepted off the coast of South Vietnam.

The message, sent through the British Ambassador in Saigon, thanked the Saigon authorities on behalf of the "entire Government and community of Hongkong."

Sir Murray added: "We are all most heartened by this example of successful international co-operation to defeat the traffic in narcotics."

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