CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 252

Enclosure in No. 1.

STATEMENT recording Traffic in Opium for periods mentioned.

China.

Straits

Settlements.

of Africa. United East Coast Kingdom.

Mauritius.

Natal.

Aden.

Ceylon.

China. Indo-

Java.

Australia.

Other

Countries.

Total.

1901-2..

47,006

15,114

1902-8..

50,009

14,722

ሰይ

60

3

OST

1,600

65,603

1903-4 ..

55,041

14,184

1904-5..

51,984

12.255

39

1905-6..

48,007

12,368

13

40

Average 1901–2 to 1905-6 |

50,421

18,719

17

එ

Cg

• 1

22

261

..

68T

T

661

1,800

32

67,531

2,250

99

73,687

179

T

Բ

BRI

500

1,270

09

29

ΤΣ

002

66,861

62,936

67,314

1906-7 ..

50,590

12,953

16

1907-8..

6F2'LF

13,195

15

FOT

1908-9..

52,758

11,174

17

1909-10

41,468

31,323

11,140

T

122

173

580

980

249

66,274

940

1,285

63,760

315

1,600

970

66,957

512

1,895

1,360

56,191

1,015

2,125

43,921

1910-11

9,138

In the monthly trade returas, from which the 1910-11 figures are taken, the countries marked (*) are not shown separately under "Opium," so that some of the 99 chests under "Other Countries" should probably be divided among them.

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No. 1.Ro 29 JUL IT

India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received July 15.) Sir,

WITH reference to Sir J. Jordan's telegram No. 155 of the 11th July, in which

India Office, July 15, 1911. it is stated that the Chinese Government will now proceed to close the ports to uncertificated opium in accordance with the agreement, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to enclose copy of a telegram from the Government of India as to obtaining the earliest possible information as to the amount by which exports of certificated opium for the next three years will have to be reduced under the terms of the agreement, and to ask that Sir John Jordan may be instructed to report on this question as soon as possible.

I am, &c.

(Telegraphic.) P.

T. W. HOLDERNESS,

Secretary, Revenue and Statistics Department,

Enclosure in No. 1.

Government of India to the Earl of Crewe.

July 13, 1911.

JORDAN'S telegram No. 155, dated the 11th July. Please inform me as early as possible by what amount it will be necessary, under the terms of the recent agreement,

to reduce certified exports of next three years.

(Repeated to Peking.)

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