Hong Kong affords a good
illustration of the difficulties of 646 offective regulation on these lines, difficultion which would uppour to render couplate suppression un impossibility uniør
existin, conditions.
For hile the cost of onopoly
opius is kopt hich und opius is obtainable
in the neighbouring provinces of China at less than one third of the Long Kong price it is obvious that there is much money to be made by the amuling into and sale of illicit opium in Cor: "on".
At present the Colony is boing flooded with Chinose (rown opium in spite of
preventive force quintained to
the lar,
keep down saugling, and of the iwavy penalties of finos, iprisonment and oven
bunisient inflicted on detected dolors in
contruband opium.
The provontivo nyates nocoscurily involves such sourching of tuo persons und
bug me of truvollors, intrusion into
privāto drolling, and onorul interference with the liberty of the individual, and inevitably lands itself to abusos, so that it is unytoin but popular with the cormity
conorully.
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Un lor present conlitions, vore a policy of complete suprosssion adopted, the
Goro stringent souœurea required to muko it offoctivo would be a source of further
rosentuent, and the cost would be prohibitive. It would of course be another attor if the
suppression of poppy cultivation, which ia
the official policy of the “hinese
to
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