CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 568

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amount which the colony was entitled to import

prior to the present year.

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With regard to the apprehensions of the

Chinese Goverment lest this continued supply of opium

should encourage lawless elements to smuggle it into the

adjoining territory under Chinese jurisdiction, all the

information in the possession of His Majesty's Government

goes to show that, owing to the great increase of

production of opius in China, the price of opium originating

in that country is now reduced to about one-sixth of the

price inside the territory of Hong Kong under the existing

system of strict and efficient Government centrol, with

the inevitable result that the smuggling of opium from the

dear market prevailing in Hong Kong to the cheap market obtaining in China has now been reduced to infinitesimal

proportions. This statement is amply borne out by the

official statistics of the quantities of muggled opium

confiscated in transit between Hong Kong and other

four

territories during the period from January 1st to July

20th 1920. Out of a total amount of forty four thousand,

nine hundred and ninety three taels so seized,

thousand, six hundred and seven taals were raw Chinese opium; no less than twenty nine thousand, five hundred and fifty one taals were Amoy opium; while the opim of long

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