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(III)TABLE showing Quantities of Opium consumed in Formosa during the y 1917-1919 and value of the same, together with the average an consumed

per day by each Licensee.

1917

1918

1919

Year.

Average Daily Amount per Consumer.

Quantity of Opium Consumed,

Value.

Momme.

Yen.

Momme.

23,853,762

6,24,377

1.05

22,879,878

19,812,821

7,552,245 7,619,411

1.10

.99

1 momme equals 13228 oz. or 3 75 grammes.

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BRITISH EMBASSY,

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TOKYO.

May 9th, 1921.

My Lord:-

I have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship,

herewith, two despatches which I have received from His

Hajesty's Consul at Tansui, respecting the opium and morphis

traffic in Formosa.

Mr. Phipps' most recent investigatione coincided

with my own visit to Formosa, and I can support most of wha“

he Bays. We visited the Government opium factory in

Faihoku, not at all of our own accord, but at the urgent

request of the Officials concerned. The explanation giv

of the processes by which opium paste is manufactured

crude opium semed clear, and, so far as those who ar

experts could judge, correct. But though the superin

of the factory did not refuse to show us the process

morphine is alleged to be separated from the opium, ₺

obviously did not wish to do so, and their explanatia

what we saw were unintelligible. I was not really s

whether we were witnessing the manufacture of morphin

another (and perhaps stronger) kind of opium paste.

The official explanation is that Turkish opi

contains more morphine than is desirable in opium past

superfluous morphine is therefore eliminated, and sold Hoshi Company, who export it to Japan for medical purp but the Government of Formosa deny that they are respo

Earl Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.,

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