SPA
1 1011/15/10,
FOREIGN OFFICE
8.7.1.
March 23rd 1921.
443
I am directed by Karl Curson of Kedleston
entitled
to emelose, herewith, copy of an article from the
"Jayan Teekly Chronicles of January 27th, 1921,
“Worphia and Humbug", to which His Lordship'a
attention has been drawn.
2.
While this strongly-worded article is, in the
main, an indictment of Japan as the channel for the
introduction into China of marphia, cosaine and heroin
in quantities greatly in excess of possible legitimate
requirements for bond fide medicinal purponou,
allegations ute also unde that Great Britain and Amurien
continue to share the profit derived from thần nefarious
traffic.
3.
The latest official figures, in the possession
of thin office, of the quantities of marphia exported
from this country are these given in the Kemorandume
enclosed is the Board of Trade letter of Oetober 6th
1919. These showed very clearly the marked falling
off in the experts to Japait as the result of the
restrictiona imposed in October, 1917; though that
decrease was not off to a certain extent by a
simultaneous increase in the experts to the United
trebury
to the Board of Trade,
states