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considerable advantages derivable from poppƒ cultivation
when the Buzna Government is unable to omtrol, so it is alleged, illicit sultivation, and clearly fails to take 47
adequate steps to prevent wholesale muggling into thins.
Kague Convention.
Under the International Opium Convention signed at the
Eague on January 3rd, 1912, the contracting parties under-
take:
Article L.- "To ensot effective laws or regulations
for the control of the production and distribution of raw
opium".
Article 3.- "That they would take measures to pre-
vent the export of ram opium to countries which shall have
prohibited its entry". Under the Tariff Jonvention of
1919, China prohibited the import of opium, poppy sooča,
morphia and its derivatives, It is clear that if Great
Britain is to osrry out either the spirit or the letter
of the above undertakings she must take adequate stapa
to prevent export of such narootios into China.
izvorta from India to Japan.
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The sorta China Herald of December 1st, 1920, ateted;
"Japen is a large buyer of Indian Opium". "This opium is exported under permits applied for by the Japanese Government. It is shipped to Koba and from Kobe is transhipped to Tsingtau". addition to its opium farm at Teingtmu, insti- tuted since the capture of that port, Jupen iz- ports opium for her farm in the Kwontung lensed territory.
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In view of the fact that the laws of Japan make it impossible for Japanese to use the imported Indian opium in excess of medioɑl requirements and in view of the well satablished system of smuggling of such opium from Japan
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