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"HONGKONG'S" OPIUM PURCHASE.
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Two days before the Assembly of the League of Nations took up the question of the Opium Traffic, a telegram from Delhi announced that the Hongkong and Indian Governments had agreed to re- new the agreement for a direct supply of opium at a fixed price for five years beginning from 1912. It was stated that this had been done at the request of the Hongkong Government. On Decem- ber 15th the League of Nations Assembly, at which Great Britain and the Demis ions (including India) are strongly repre- sented, "adopted & proposal that the League of Nations should, in accordance with Article 23 of the Covenant, assume the duties connected with the opium traffic hitherto undertaken by the Netherlands Government under the pro- visions of the International Opium Con vention of January 23rd, 1012. It was
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A CHINESE ROMANCE. amount required solely for medical par- poses. And ather British posessions Members at the Royal Asiatic Society nearer China appear to take the view at Shanghai, were entertained last week that it is their duty to follow, not set-an
with a delightful romance of Chinese life," example to. China. Singapore imported The tale is a very popular one; and Mr- road by Mr. Charles. Kliene, F.R.G.8. ao fewer than 8,584 chests within 19 Kliene's version was obtained in South months, though a few pounds would have Ohing some years ago. It will well sufleed for the Colony's legitimate repay reading when published, as n medical requirements. Hongkong, as doubt it will be, in the records of the society, especially—as the Chairman "of already stated, imported 1,220 chests in the meeting (the Rev. Isune Mason) in. And it is incredible that there is pointed out for the charming way in
which the author describes familia CHILDAR legitimate medicinal use for the 3,440 eeues and characters and for much bril chests of Indian opium exported to Indoliant and at the same time minutely se China; the 1,750 chests exported to Siam. Kliens, marriage makers are known as curate description. In China, said Mr. or the 1939 chests exported to Japan. inthe old people beneath the Moon." 1918-19.
Whether the go-betweens had anything to do with the moon he did not know, but with the honey-moon. they certainly had a great deal to do His story was briefy as follows:
Sir William Collins, one of Great Britain's delegates at the Hague Conven tion, recently declared that the Conven tion" by the Note we were authorized to append to our signatures, applies to India while Mr. Shortt's Dangerous Drugs Hill' does not. Indin, I believe, never has had a Pharmacy Act. It ought to
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that the Indian Government for the sake I the revenue derived from its production, la deluging the Far East with opium, re The amount of opium imported into gardless of the effect upon the population Hongkong in 1919 was 1,200 chests, which, and upon British prestige in this part of added to 1018 Brought the total up to the world. Its exports to the Far East 1,543, chests. Of these 837 were re-ex- to-day amount to more than fifty per ported-374 to the Macao Opium Farm: cent. of the total Indian export, although and 377 were bailed by the Government it is notorious that the Far East is the Opium Monopoly, leaving 320 chests in danger spot of the opium trade, and that stock at the end of the year. Although large quantities of the drug are import the annual rental of the Macao Opium ed by countries contiguous to Chine Farm was reduced by 834,500 by the merely for the purpose of smuggling it. Lisbon Government during the year, the in its raw state or as morphia, over the Farmer was still paying 66,841,500 for the Trophier. To all remonstrances it replies Monopoly. The agreement between the with sueering or transparently hypo- British and Portuguese Authorities by critical arguments. It is not pleasant for which the Macao Opium Farm is supplied British subjects, jealous of the honour of with a fixed amount of opium annually, their country, and its prestige in China, expires in 1921, but presumably that to learn of the publication of such books also will be renewed, in complete dias Miss La Motte's The Opium Mono- regard of morality, and international obligations. The Macac Monopoly was again put up for suction during the cur
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̧· IN THX GOLDEN AGE. In the Tang Dynasty there lived in Sungkang a young man of lowly estate, Wei Ku-one who, in course of time be came famed for his learning, a master of the classics in that Golden Age of poetry and culture. It chanced that he set out.
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Having passed through the busy streets, he wandered on to the high rond, enchanted with the loveliness of the night. At a lonely spot on the road ho came upon a strange-looking old man, sitting on a mound by the roadside, his head over a huge book which lay across his knees. This book, the old man said
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after the youth had diffidently encou aged conversation was the Register-of Marringer, of which he (who had come from the moon) was the appointed casto- dian, and in which were set down the JAPAN PORTS SHANGHAL HONGKONG AND marriages destiny had in store for all people in the world. At the old man's side was a bag containing the silken cords with which these nuptial knots were to be tied.
Quite naturally. Wei ventured to in- poly," which, even if the authoress be quire as to particulars, against his own prejudiced and guilty of exaggeration in name in the book, and was sorely dis parts, constitutes a formidable and appointed upon learning that his future almost unanswerable indictment of the bride was at that moment an infant two Indian Government. It is not pleasant ears of age, and a child of poverty. Wei when large hands of morphia areata expostulated, but received no-munte-con- almost weekly in Tientsin, in cargoes solation than that there was no help for brought by Japanese steamers, to be met What must be, must be. You can with the retort that the manufacture of not escape that which, the gods have this morphia would be impossible if the ordained. The old man described where Indian Government acted in accordance the infant was to be found in the city and
national Opium Convention. The repre sentatives of British trade in China and Hongkong have already put on record their views regarding the opium traffic
in what circumstances, precisely as Wei following day: a humble shop in a squalid locality warming with beggars and people of the lowest class; the child, and carried in the arms of a hideous and unclean old woman. Filled with disgust, Wei turned on his heels and Bed, but presently stopped and bethought
China, of course, notwithstanding Mr. Wellington Koo's statements to the con- trary, has not lived up to her under takings in regard to the suppression of the opnum traffic. The poppy is still cultivated with the connivance, if not at the instigation, of the local officials, in many part of the country. Anti-oprun with the spirit and the letter of the Inter found when he visited the place on the legislation may be enforced in some of of the Provinces, but we can hardly be lieve that "great difficulty: would be ex- perienced in obtaining supplies of the drug in any part of the country, if their a resolution declaring that wrapped in a bundle of unwholesome rags purchaser were willing to pay the price. The Conference of British Chambers The fact remains nevertheless, that the of Commerce assembled at Shanghai is convinced of the necessity for immediate production and consumption of opium are action by the British Government with prohibited by law, and though the nation has not fulfilled the promise of the last years of the Manchus; and the first years
the opinn traffic will ever again be legalized in this country. Public sentiment should give immediate effect to the ment is against it, and if the militarists various measures which the International who now rule the Provinces be over-piant Convention agreed to in 1918 at thrown there is every reason to believe the Hague Conference in reapest of Raw Opium. Prepared Opium, Medicinal that the anti-opium campaign will be Opium, morphine, cocaine, etc., without revived with all its former vigour.
From the moral point of view, of countries, and would especially urge the waiting for the ratification by other course, China's lapses in no way justify British Government to control the pro- the exploitation of the opium traffic by duction of such habitforming drugs, and Governments which cannot, like bers, to limit their production of the amount plead that they do not possess the authorequired for legitimate medicinal use, and
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rity necessary to suppressit. The British Government has admitted, by the recent passage of the Dangerous Drugs Bill, that trade in narcotic drugs, beyond legitimate medical requirements, defensible. It has taken steps which it may be hoped, will prove effective to control the export of such drugs from the United Kingdom. This Bill, however, is not applicable to India, which appears
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in advance. The bargain was duly car freight steamers ried out, and upon hearing that the child was dead. Wei escaped from the neighbourhood, conscience stricken so pay the balance to the rafar. much so that apparently he forgot to
THE LOVELY MAIDEN.
In course of time Wel, by reason of his abilities (and a little private in- gente), obtained an official appointment use, and to limit their export to such preferment coming in due season. countries as have established Laws and he rose to an enviable position and Regulations which effectively control the engaged the attention of marriage- trathe in these drugs, and restrict their directed by ambitious mothers. But he makers whose operations were skilfully use to legitimate purposes only.
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father the Perfect observed with great satisfaction, the eight characters of her rearriage destiny as fathomed by the astrologers harmonized exactly with those of Wei: So he was informed, incredibly, the young lady seeming a star beyond his own sphere. But the eight characters were not to be gaintaid. They were perfect counterparts; the oracles had never been more favourable. The mar riage was duly decided upon, the delight. ed Prefect setting about preliminary ar rangements with right good will, and. lavish generosity, and eventually the red silken cord was used, symbol of the two being jonied for ever.
Now, the Prefect of the place was an to be at liberty to continue to engage in A PRIME MINISTER'S ADMISSIONS observant man with a very charming the opium traffic in complete disregard
daughter, Ch'an Lai, renowned for her of the terms of the International Opium
Dr. von Kabr, the Bavarian Prime beauty and accomplishments, of voice, of Convention, and of the effect upon British Minister, on November 10th, delivered in pen, and of instrument. She could play prestige. in the Far East. The acreage the Bavarian Diet his long-awaited state the five kinds of music auited to the five under poppy cultivation in India is ment on the Einwohnerwehr. He ascribkinds of étiquette, and vie with the moAL steadily increasing. It had risen fromed its organization to the sad experi- learned in expounding the classics. She 144,561 acres in 1913-14 to 204,160 acres ences of the Bavarians at the time when was clever and she was beautiful, and in 1916-17, the last year for which returns the Communists rose and set up what was even more to the point, as her are available, and the exports to the Far Council (Soviet) Government in Bavaria. East (direct exports to China excepted).
The Government, he said, was at one have increased by leaps and bounds with all parties sa to its need of such a during the past few years. The exports force to preserve order and safets. He of Indian opium to Japan, for instance, declared that the danger of attempts to have risen from 789 chests in 1913-14 to overthrow the State on the part of the 1,036 cheats in 1918-19; to Indo-China trem extreme Left was still present, since the 875 chesta in 1914-15 to 3,440 chests in Communista controlled, as an authorita 1918-19. In the year 1916-16 the total ex-
tive report which the Government bad ports of opium from India amounted to intercepted gave the number of rifles in 17,276 shests, of which at least 8,000 possession of Red Army organizations, chests were exported to Biam and the 463,000 rifles, with 200 heavy machine-guns, Far East. Yet Mr. Montagu took strong 1200 light machine guns, 240 pieces of exception to the charge that the measures heavy artillery, and 26 aeroplanes, be adopted by the Government of India were sides mine throwers, flame projectors,
by no means in consonance with the gas bomba and explosives. spirit" of the Hague Opium Convention, In view of these numbers, he declared. under which all the signatories agree" to that the dissolution of the Einwohner- enact effective laws or regulations for webr. consisting of members of all par- the control of the production and distri-ties including Majority Socialista, would bution of raw opium" and to take mea, be equivalent to suicide. As regards the sures to prevent the export of raw opium answer to the Entente Notes, Dr. von to countries which shall have prohibited Kahr gave no particulars, but, confirmed its entry. As long ago a 1914, during the report that he would proceed to the Indian Budget debate, Sir Tbrahim Berlin in a few days for verbal confer Rahimtools asked why the export of ences on the subject with the Central
Government. onism should not be prohibited to other Coming from so high an authority, the
COINCIDENCE'S LONG, ARM. Upon all these matters the author dwells with a great wealth of fancy and literary skill, to which, we can do scant justice now, merely giving the outline of the story. It was discovered, of course, that Ch'un Lai was only the adopted daughter of the Prefect; that she was born in poverty, that her parents died, leaving her in the care of an old nurses an old lady who kort a small shop
characteristically sneering rejoinder figures given by Dr. von Kahr must be was but two years old. a ruhan drabed from Sir William Meyer (one of the re accepted (says The Times correspondent), and attempted to kill the child, his blow presentatives of India at the League of They show conclusively that the disarma- being warded off by the old woman. Nations Assembly) to the effect that "hement of Germany; as undertaken in 'con- Ch'un Lai ends her account of this in- did not admit the wickedness of sending | formity with the Spa Agreement is & pure; cident by removing a pearl ornament, oprum to China," and second, that while farce. Their value as an argument for dangling coquettishly over her forehead, the amorphous Government of that cous the revision of the Einwohnerwehr may thus revealing the scar of the blow by try could not control its affairs very be appraised in other quarters. Here, which the youth now her husband had efficiently, other countries could, as they one may remark that it shows how com designed to evade his appointed destiny eknushawgschikroinde tampering I-nektor-in-armamente in reproduced my ACTING MAN CRISTOF maximum of revenue from a minimum the internal life of Germany, just as Ger- and hears a thousand voices, saying “ of consumption "regardless, he might many imposed the competition of arma"What must be must be; you cannot have added, of the interests of their ments upon Europe that led up to the escape that which the gods have ordained neighbours. The Indian Government has
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