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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE,

CONFIDENTIAL.

[38355]

No. 1.

[November 12.]

SECTION I

C

43804 Red 27 MUX

Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906.

Mr. Lynch,--To ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state, and, if not, whether he will ascertain, the approximate amount of opium at present grown in China; and what proportion such native-grown opium bears to that imported into China from foreign countries.

Answered by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey),

The latest information at the disposal of the Foreign Office will be found at p. 23 pp. 80 to 82 of the Report for the years 1904-1905 of the Foreign Trade of China, Annual Series, No. 3725.

and

The Acting Commercial Attaché states in that Report that it is impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the annual output of native opium in China. But he estimates the production of the Province of Souchuan alone, which is the greatest centre of poppy cultivation, to be about four times the present total amount of foreign opium imported into China.

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] CHINA TRADE, CONFIDENTIAL. [38355] No. 1. [November 12.] SECTION I C 43804 Red 27 MUX Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906. Mr. Lynch,--To ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state, and, if not, whether he will ascertain, the approximate amount of opium at present grown in China; and what proportion such native-grown opium bears to that imported into China from foreign countries. Answered by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey), The latest information at the disposal of the Foreign Office will be found at p. 23 pp. 80 to 82 of the Report for the years 1904-1905 of the Foreign Trade of China, Annual Series, No. 3725. and The Acting Commercial Attaché states in that Report that it is impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the annual output of native opium in China. But he estimates the production of the Province of Souchuan alone, which is the greatest centre of poppy cultivation, to be about four times the present total amount of foreign opium imported into China. -17 [2241 m]
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238 [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] CHINA TRADE, CONFIDENTIAL. [38355] No. 1. [November 12.] SECTION I C 43804 Red 27 MUX Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906. Mr. Lynch,--To ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state, and, if not, whether he will ascertain, the approximate amount of opium at present grown in China; and what proportion such native-grown opium bears to that imported into China from foreign countries. Answered by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey), The latest information at the disposal of the Foreign Office will be found at p. 23 pp. 80 to 82 of the Report for the years 1904-1905 of the Foreign Trade of China, Annual Series, No. 3725. and The Acting Commercial Attaché states in that Report that it is impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the annual output of native opium in China. But he estimates the production of the Province of Souchuan alone, which is the greatest centre of poppy cultivation, to be about four times the present total amount of foreign opium imported into China. -17 [2241 m)
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE,

CONFIDENTIAL.

[38355]

No. 1.

[November 12.]

SECTION I

C

43804

Red 27 MUX

Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906.

Mr. Lynch,--To ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state, and, if not, whether he will ascertain, the approximate amount of opium at present grown in China; and what proportion such native-grown opium bears to that imported into China from foreign countries.

Answered by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey),

The latest information at the disposal of the Foreign Office will be found at p. 23 pp. 80 to 82 of the Report for the years 1904-1905 of the Foreign Trade of China, Annual Series, No. 3725.

and

The Acting Commercial Attaché states in that Report that it is impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the annual output of native opium in China. But he estimates the production of the Province of Souchuan alone, which is the greatest centre of poppy cultivation, to be about four times the present total amount of foreign opium imported into China.

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