INTERNATIONAL
1, Hei Cha
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ADULATION,
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KEMORANDUM
Dealing with the existing state of the Traffic in Opium, Morphia, Oo- caine and other hsbit forming druga.
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Indian Froduction:
Though by virtue of an Agreement with China Great Britain reduced her exportation of opium to China annually by one tenth, she did not, at the same time, reduce the Indian production of opium in a similar ratio, with the result that though British direct importation of opium into China has ceased, the indirect import of opium and its derivatives has, through import into China of opium
It is and morphia, suffered only moderate diminution. believed that if there are added together the quantities of opium imported into Japan and of morphia reaching the Far East (tho equivalent amount of morphia x7 equals opium), importation of opium into China is but little
dizinished.
This Association is unable to quote the actual figures representing the quantity of opium produced in India during the year 1918 as it has received no reply in reply to a re- giving the total figures for india. quest addressed to the Indian Government office concerned
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