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consignment in question is required for legitimate
scientific or medicinal purposes.
13.
Experience has proved, however, that so
long as there is forthoosing from any sourse a supply
of morphine and similar highly-concentrated druĽB,
legislation is almost powerless to suppress their
use; as the highly lucrative contraband traffic in
those substances is one which cannot effectively
be checked by the ordinary preventive measures.
14. (IV). Relations with thẳng. The
regulations existing in the Far Rastern Dependencies
of the British Mapire are, in fact, considerably
more stringent then are actually required under the
text of Articles 15 to 19 of the Convention.
Imprisonment is
15. (V). Article 20.
prescribed as a penalty for contravention of many of
the clauses of the opium Ordinances in strait
Settlements and How. Konɛ, including the clauses
relating to illegal possession of the drug.
16.
Article 21.
The text of all legisla-
tion, and statistion of the trade, have been regularly
remitted home by the Governments of Hong Kong and the
Straits Settlements, and passed on from this Department to the Foreign Office.
C17.
Although the coming into force
of the 1912 Convention was postponed until the 10th January, 1920, legislative measures in many particulars exceeding, end at no point falling: mert of, its requirements have been enforced in Bonɛ Kong and the
Straits Settlements for several years prior to that
date. There is therefore no question of any failure
to comply with the terms of the Convention on the
part