37, Threadneedle Street,
LONDON, E. 0.2.
26th October, 1923.
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small number of Chinese (according to the census of November 1920 over 400,000. compared with a total population of about 35 million souls) consumes 40 per cent of the total quantity of opium. Accordingly, calculated separately for the Chinese and the Natives, the consumption per capita in 1920 averages for the former 120.4 mata, as against 2 mata for the latter.
Sir,
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 50189/23 of the 19th instant,
transmitting copies of the Report of the 5th
Committee of the Assembly of the League of Nations
on Traffic in Opium and Dangerous drugs, together
with copies of the Report and Minutes of the Fifth
Session of the Advisory Committee and copies of a
Memorandum on the Opium Policy in the Netherlands
East Indies.
Your letter and its enclosures are
2,
receiving attention
I am,
Sir,
Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE,
Downing Street,
S.F.1.
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Your obedient Servant,
l-eir t. Colling
Under Secretary.