64.
(47655/14).
Sir:-
$45,000.
'FOREIGN OFFICE.
C.
+
5 368
RECR
REGS 12 FEB 1--
63
February 9th, 1914.
I transmit to Your Excellency herewith copy of
correspondence as marked in the margin on the subject
of the Opium Traffic in Kwangchauwan,
Your Excellency will observe that the Governor of
Hong Kong has enquired whether the French Government
might be asked to regulate the traffic with greater
strictness than is at present the case. It appears that
the monopoly for the mamifacture and sale of Prepared
Opium and for the sale of Raw Opium in Kwangchauwan ex-
pired on December 31st, 1913, the annual rental of the
monopoly being Forty-five thousand dollars. The number
of cheats of Indian Opium imported into KwangchauwATI
during 1912 was Five hundred and seventy and the number
of cheats of opium actually consumed in the territory
of Kwangchauwan during that year amounted to Fifty-six.
is supposed that some two-thirds of the raw opium
imported
mourable
Bertie, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.,
&c., à¤.,