CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 290

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remarkable reduction in the native production and sale figures.

In our opinion the early suppression of

opim depends entirely on the energy of the measures adopted to

suppress it. The adoption of a uniform method of sale under

official control is certainly a procedure of high importance in

connection with its suppression, but we will now proceed to

report to Your Majesties certain difficulties in connection

therewith as the result of our investigation of the subject.

(1).

The British Government has promised its

active co-operation in the suppression of the drug and has

issued an order prohibiting the export of Hongkong prepared

Opium into China. It appears that in Hongkong where the opium

imported from abroad is prepared that, under the arrangementa for sales under official control, 15 cases daily are disposed

of by the opium company, while as a matter of fact less than

three cases are required for Hongkong consumption, the remainder

being illicitly exported into China. In view of the British

Government having forbidden the export of Hongkong prepared

opium into China and of the suppression within two years of the

opium houses which were so fruitful a source of taxation in the

foreign settlement of Shanghai, the creation by China of bu-

-reaux for the monopoly of the sale of opium will assuredly

dissatisfy foreign nations and appear to them to be due to

profit seeking motives. This is the first reason for the im-

-practicability of the arrangement.

(2).

The second reason against it is as follows:

The gradual prohibition of opium over a period of 10 years is

in itself a humane measure, but a real determination to give

up the practice, no matter how intense the craving for the

drug, results in the complete abandonment of the habit within a

few months. Now that the official classes have in most cases

broken themselves of the practice within specified limits of

time, while the rest of the population are earnestly striving to

imitate