No. 57916/13.
Draft.
Sir: -
Sir F. Bertie.
FOREIGN OFFICE,
January
1914.
No.
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I transmit to your Excellency here-
with copy of correspondence as marked in
the margin on the subject of the Opium
Traffic in Kwangchauwan.
It
Your Excellency will observe that the
Governor of Hongkong has enquired whether
the French Government might be asked to
regulate the traffic with greater strict-
ness than is at present the case.
appears that the monopoly for the manufac-
ture and sale of prepared opium and for
the sale of raw opium in Kwangchauwan ex-
pired on December 31st 1913, the annual
rental of the monopoly being $45,000. The
number of chests of Indian Opium imported into Kwangchauwan during 1912 was 570 and
the number of chests of opium consumed in the territory of Kwangchauwan during that
year is estimated at about 50.
It is
-
supposed
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