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recessary
the present position it is necessa to examine and review the history of the course of trade in opium
during
two periods viz:-
1th Before June 1887.
2 lince that date to the
present time.
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All opium from
Furkey nikended.
India or Persia or
for
China is bror.
brought to Hongkong
as Raw Opium. Up till Sime 1887
nearly all landed and stored
it was
here, and
only kaushipped to such
places in China as wanted it, –
because the payment of de
duty
and
4.
lekin was thus deferred until
the con
mmodity.
Hongkong
was wanted, as
is a free port.
In consequence of
prequent complaints against the Government for allowing suruggling from here a Commission was
appointed in 1883 Wenquire and
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report.
*
*
report. That Commission aveer.
about 20,000 piculs of
faired that about 20,000.
were ana
annually left at...
and which could not
opian Hongkong
be accounted for by
the Foreign
Inspectorate of Customs at the Treaty Ports. It was known that s
at deal of
great
this
AVTOI
sinuggled,
but the amount was mere
conjecture, because there were up till 1887 two ways by which
opium could pay its de
entering
China, one
duty
through the
native collectorate, the other through the Foreign Custones - Collectorate. The latter fu
furnished statistics. The former did not.
Thus opiun could be
lawfully imported by junts to either Treaty
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but if in Foreign
could bri
only
Treaty porto,
Vessels it.
be imported into
China at Freaty Ports, and -
therefore
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