233
V.-Opium Offences in Burma.
Cases of smuggling and illicit possession, in which the opium was probably Chinese.
Number of persons
convicted.
Seers.
1920-21
Total amount of opium seized. Equivalent in Taels (approx.).
962
1,284
31,700
1921-22
1,021
1,127
27,800
1922-23
1,029
1,052
26,000
1923-24
1,087
1,677
41,400
1924-25
1,007
2,441
60,250
1925-26
1,075
3,020
74,550
1926-27
1,221
2,580
63,700
C. 63004/29 [No. 59].
Prepared
Prepared
opium sold.
Per head.
Taels.
Taels.
Taels.
Taels.
1918
639,684
1.10
1923
384,124
0.38
SIB,
1919
457,968
0.76
1924
351,560
0.35
1920
294,376
0.46
1925
233,495
0.23
1921
1922
262,805 370,332
0.39
1926
195,224
0.52
1927
292,830
0.195 0.30
N.B.-Price of Government opium has remained at 14.50 dollars per tael since 1918, except during the period 3rd October, 1927, to 31st December, 1927, during which three different brands of Government opium were sold experimentally at 15 dollars, 8.33 dollars and 6.66 dollars per tael. (At present rates of exchange, 1 dollar=28. approximately.)
III.-Offences under Opium Ordinance: Hong Kong.
Number
Persons
of cases.
convicted..
1918
307
411
1923
1919
314
686
1924
1920
452
875
1925
1921
2,147
3,040
1926
1922
1,879
2,396
1927
Number of cases. convicted. 2,775 3,510 5,019 6,167 4,407 5,835 4,644 6,428 5,114 6,726
Persons
No. 209.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. [Answered by No. 210.]
Foreign Office, S.W.1, 20th July, 1929.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to refer to Foreign Office letter of the 10th instant, and to connected correspondence on the subject of the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry into the control of opium smoking in the Far East.
2. I am to inform you that the members of the Commission will assemble on the 15th August at Geneva, where they will spend a fortnight before their departure. for the Far East. They will no doubt desire to devote this period to a preliminary study of the questions which they are to investigate, and Mr. Henderson considers it of importance that they should have access to reliable and recent information as regards the control of opium smoking in areas under the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom which they will subsequently visit, and particularly as regards the difficulties with which the various Governments are faced, and the measures which they have taken or are contemplating to overcome these difficulties.
3. Mr. Henderson would consequently be glad if Lord Passfield, should His Lordship see no objection, would cause a memorandum containing the information indicated above to be prepared and transmitted to him in time for this document to be placed at the disposal of the members of the Far Eastern Commission of Inquiry on their arrival in Geneva on the 15th August by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to whom it is proposed to forward it, if possible, before that date.
I am,
&c.,
GEORGE MOUNSEY.
IV.-Seizures of Opium: Straits Settlements.
C. 63004/29 [No. 60].
No. 210.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, 3rd August, 1929.
I AM directed by Lord Passfield to acknowledge the receipt of your letterf on the subject of the League of Nations investigation into the control of opium smoking in the Far East, and to transmit to you copies of a memorandum on the position in the British Dependencies in the Far East which, if Mr. Secretary Henderson sees no objection, might be placed at the disposal of the Members of the Commission as suggested in your letter. Copies of this letter and enclosure are being sent to the Home Office and India Office.
Raw. Prepared. Total.
Tahils.
Tahils.
Tahils.
1918
52,811
15,028
67,839
1919
15,219.
8,419
23,638
SIR,
1920
12,154
5,087
17,241
1921
4,462
6,723
11,185
1922
5,398
3,732
# 9,130
1923
6,887
29,438
36,325
1924
12,613
90,539
103,152
1925
36,656
275,089
311,745
1926
18,602
170,014
188,616
1927
6,200
183,115
189,315
NOTED.
(1) Seizures are occasionally made in the Malay States, but they are negligible in quantity. (2) Although exact figures are not available, all but a very small percentage of the opium seized is of Chinese origin.
I am, &c., 1
G. E. J. GENT.
* C. 63004/29 [No. 56]; not printed.
† No. 209.
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