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His Majesty's consul at Swatow has reported cultivation in several districts around that port. In Jao-p'ing, Ch'eng-hai and Hai-yang, there was extensive cultivation, but effective measures of suppression appear to have been taken in the first-named district. Lieutenant Crosse, R.G.A., and Lieutenant Brown, R.E., who had been making surveys of military routea in those parts, reported having seen a good deal of opium smoking without any attempt at concealment.
His Majesty's consul-general at Canton reported on the 13th March that, so far as he was aware, no opium was being grown within his consular district with the exception of certain tracts adjoining the province of Kiangsi.
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 2.)
(No. 106.) (Telegraphic.) R.
YOUR telegram No. 121 of 30th April: Opium.
Peking, May 2, 1913.
Stocks are being worked off exclusively by sale to Chinese licensed dealers in the international settlement at Shanghai in the regular way, and there is no reason to believe that any opium goes to other Chimese markets except Hong Kong. At Fuchow and Amoy also the trade continues its normal course. Every bale is labelled by Customs, to whom the prescribed duty is paid.
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