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imagined, and, if the got marritsl
Chimes, the
supperently empreston with ther less of the Colany would be only a matter of
line.
The Szaman's strike
djist lesson, shaving the Relory's absoluter Sipindiacs upon the gooit will of the Chines
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Er. Flotoner said that the discontinuance of the Government
monopoly would mean spraat increase of margling and, consequently
of tɔm use of the drug.
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reventive Service 15 the monopoly was done away with, but howoTOR, rather than have any syston of rationing, hia Government would
prefer to close the monopoly. The Calany af dang Long was not
go ́permanent ae was gemórally imagined. It was entirely dependent upon the Chinges, and if Chinees bestility were invoked,
the British rule in Hong Kong sould not continne, The dook
strike in Hong Kong was an illustration of how the life of the Colony could be disturbed by influences ja China. The nonepely, he thought, was useful-an-persttting-lár-abiding. Phinese to
If opium smoking were prohibited, they
Fould be in the daily position of being able to arrest 20% of the population. ås it would be impossible to do this, and in order
that the law might be vindicated, there would have to be die-
orimination as to who was to be arrested. This would mean even
There was another
Discontinuance of
sere corruption than there at present.
osmeideration which should be borne in mind.
spium moking wuld probably mean a very large increɛze la worse habits, such as cocaine and drug-taking, and the seting of opium.
Jle did not agree with Sir John Jauleson that the rising generation
disapproved of opium. There was a period, when the aṛitation was at its height, when young Chinasen returning from Europe were in-
bued with the western ideas that opium moking was wrong; opinion
was now a fout prevalent vent bad, however,/aoted, and It was now reoo hised that opium smoking
in moderation was not deleterious.
Bir E. Delevingne said that it would hardly be accepted that
the majority of the Chinese were determined to have their opium, wooh a proposition would certainly be rejected by the official representatives of the Chinese Goverment. He referred to the statement in the Report of the Malaya Committee that most of the
Chinese smoking, learned the praction in the Colony.