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(4.) It is forbidden to give opium to another person, or to lend licences, opium
lamps or smoking apparatus.
(5.) Change of residence is immediately to be reported.
(6.) On surrender or withdrawal of a licence, the licence is to be returned to the
opium officials,
7. Whoever endeavours, contrary to the provisions of paragraph 2, to import opium into the protected territory, or transports it through the protected territory, will be liable to a fine equivalent to five times the value of the opium. The minimum fine is 100 dollars
8. A fine of from 10 to 150 dollars will be levied on :-
(1.) Whoever has unauthorised opium or opium imitations in his possession, (2.) Whoever smokes or drinks unauthorised opium.
(3.) Whoever fills the opium boxes bearing the official labels with anything other than prepared opium sold through the authorised dealers, or whoever makes imitations of prepared opium.
9. Other contraventions of this ordinance will be punished by a fine of from 5 to
50 dollars.
10. Imprisonment up to three months may replace a fiue which cannot be paid. Chinese may be sentenced to be beaten, not exceeding fifty blows, in addition to fine or imprisonment,
Opium imitations, smoking and cooking apparatus, and other such articles intended for use or used in any dealings punishable under this ordinance, will be confiscated without distinction, whether they belong to the offenders or not.
sentenced.
Confiscation will take place also when no particular person is found guilty and 11. This ordinance will come into force on the 1st March, 1912.
On the same day the ordinance regarding opium of the 11th March, 1902, and the notice of the 13th October, 1903, will be repealed.
Tsingtao, February 16, 1912.
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MEYER-WALDECK,
Imperial Governor.
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 114.)
No. 1.
Sir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.-(Received April 12.)
[April 12.]
SECTION 3.
HIS Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith a copy of despatch No. 11 from His Majesty's vice-consul at Tsingtao dated the 15th February, respecting the issue of regulations governing morphine and cocaine by the Commander- in-chief of the Tsingtao garrison,
Peking, February 26, 1921.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Vice-consul Archer to Sir B. Alston.
(No. 11.) Sir,
Tsingtao, February 15, 1921, WITH reference to your despatch No. 4 of the 19th ultimo covering Tokyo despatch to the Foreign Office, No. 622 of the 29th December, 1920, regarding the control of the import, manufacture and sale of morphine, cocaine and their kindred salts, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a Military Ordinance (No. 10) issued on the 21st April, 1918, by the Commander-in-chief of the Tsingtao garrison promulgating regulations governing morphine and cocaine."
These regulations are of a similar nature to those now made by the Ministry of Interior in Japan, translation of which is enclosed in Sir C. Eliot's despatch. It is provided that only druggists or manufacturers of drugs may import morphine and cocaine, and that these drugs may only be sold to proper persons or persons holding a medical prescription.
I am informed by the local authorities that these regulations are still in force, and that it is not at present considered necessary to revise or amend them.
Whilst it is well known that Japanese pedlars and small chemists' shops along the Tsingtao-Tainan railway have for some years openly been selling morphine and other drugs to the Chinese, which in all probability is imported through Tsingtao with the cognisance of the Japanese military administration, at the same time it is believed that the regulations in so far as retail sale is concerned have reasonably strictly been enforced in the leased territory itself. The responsibility for controlling the trade in these drugs outside the leased territory rests with the Japanese consular authorities, and not with the Tsingtao Administration.
The Chinese Maritime Customs officials in Tsingtao make every effort to prevent amuggling of opium, morphine, cocaine and other prohibited drugs; seizures are constantly being made, and in every case confiscation and punishment of the offenders takes place.
I have, &c.
ALLAN ARCHER.
(Translation.)
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Military Ordinance No. 10.
REGULATIONS governing morphine and cocaine are hereby made as follows:-
April 21, 1918.
F. HONGO. Commander-in-chief of Tsingtao Garrison.
Regulations governing Morphine and Cocaine.
Article 1.-The term "morphine" in these regulations includes morphine and its kindred salts, and the term "cocaine" includes cocaine and its kindred salts.
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