CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 65

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(47655/14).

Sir:-

$45,000.

'FOREIGN OFFICE.

C.

+

5 368

RECR

REGS 12 FEB 1--

63

February 9th, 1914.

I transmit to Your Excellency herewith copy of

correspondence as marked in the margin on the subject

of the Opium Traffic in Kwangchauwan,

Your Excellency will observe that the Governor of

Hong Kong has enquired whether the French Government

might be asked to regulate the traffic with greater

strictness than is at present the case. It appears that

the monopoly for the mamifacture 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 Forty-five thousand dollars. The number

of cheats of Indian Opium imported into KwangchauwATI

during 1912 was Five hundred and seventy and the number

of cheats of opium actually consumed in the territory

of Kwangchauwan during that year amounted to Fifty-six.

is supposed that some two-thirds of the raw opium

imported

mourable

Bertie, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.,

&c., à¤.,