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xtract from Reuters', May 8th.
The following information regarding the sale of opium in
Q Dutch East Indias has been supplied to the International
Anti-Opium Association by the Netherlands Minister;-
Formerly the sale of opium in Ketherlands India was farmed
out to Chinese deal ers. 3inee September 1894, the Colonial
lovernment has taken this sale in hand as a government monopoly
|{Fagie), first in the island of Madura and gradually in the
whole island of Java. In 1905 this monopoly was introduced in to
the other islands of the Archipelago. The object of this system
is to raise the price of opium gradually so as to make it pro-
hibi tive. An elaborate system of suryance is necessary to pre-
vent smuggling. Finally different provinces are entirely closed
to opium, al though certain people who are unable to leave off
smoking without imparing their heal th may receive personal
licences, Thus the Residencies of Bantam, Batavia (partly),
'rsanger, Soerabaja (partly), Madura, Lampong, Cheribon, Ban-
jumas and certain districts of the Residencies of Pakalangan,
Jemarang, Kedoe, Kediri, Boerakarta and Hadioen have been entire
ly closed and importation, possession and transport of opium,
the remains of opium, opium pipes and other utensils are strict-
ly forbidden. The same applies to numerous districts and towns
in the other islands besides Jaya,
Regulations have been issued for the sale for medical pur-
poses of opium, morphia and other narcotics and the instrumen la
for the injection of morphia. The possession and transport of
these were forbidɑen in 1911.
The cultivation of poppy was forbidden ähready in 1872,
The use of opium among the troops is forbi dizan