CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 578

503

#

skod whether

Coverarent on t.

912, whereby the a

will to restricted as regarů!

use for Medicinal purposes only? Jes to export Korphine or Cocaine

to hen are cot granted unless they are accom- Cater obtained from the Japanese Home Office, or uthorities of the Kuantung lensed territory,

to

the morphia and cocaine is for actual consumption iron and its vicinity and is for MEDICAL PURPOSES > this effcet was published in the Board of Trade

he 11 October after communication with the Japanese

e understand that the Japanese Government have issued

ry instructions for the prevention of smuggling of these for the exercize of due in all cakes,"

thie official answer is a prevarication and toe spokesman

f the British Covera: ant auɛt have known that it was a prevarica- Con. Although licenses are necessary for ordinary trade export,

。 ljenses are required for despatch by parcel post from England, ponnŭe of a drug more powerful than morphia (--70,000 injec- `a) havin just reached chemists in Peking as an ordinery 196- hipment. And when petty Japanese officials in Dairon {and me begi -tau) are empowered to is we licenses, accepted by the Bri rnment as justifying export in unlimited quantity,

so whet is behin this business,