CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 24

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Smuggling

Now that China is one of the greatest opium producing countries in the world, it is obvious that the abolition of the existing legitimate trade in the drug in Hong Kong and Singapore would enormously increase contraband traffic, which already is dealing with those colonies.

The being price artificially maintained by the renewal state that the HK Government is not bound to receive any stipulated amount and there is nothing in the agreement therefore to prejudice the continuance of the policy of graduated restriction in bhinn is about one-tenth of that in the volume of smuggling so created is already large which has been suffered in Hong Kong for the past few years.

The measures adopted to suppress smuggling have been followed in Hong Kong to their utmost and the increase which would result from any attempt completely to abolish S'pore monopoly would be quite beyond the power of these Colonies to cope with.

The assertion that the HK monopoly will be abridged in the course of a few years offered authentic menu when made with the contract recently received from India for the supply of opium to HK est...

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SmugglingNow that China is one of the greatest opium producing countries in the world, it is obvious that the abolition of the existing legitimate trade in the drug in Hong Kong and Singapore would enormously increase contraband traffic, which already is dealing with those colonies.The being price artificially maintained by the renewal state that the HK Government is not bound to receive any stipulated amount and there is nothing in the agreement therefore to prejudice the continuance of the policy of graduated restriction in bhinn is about one-tenth of that in the volume of smuggling so created is already large which has been suffered in Hong Kong for the past few years.The measures adopted to suppress smuggling have been followed in Hong Kong to their utmost and the increase which would result from any attempt completely to abolish S'pore monopoly would be quite beyond the power of these Colonies to cope with.The assertion that the HK monopoly will be abridged in the course of a few years offered authentic menu when made with the contract recently received from India for the supply of opium to HK est...
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~(3) Smagghing

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