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Aengyuch No.1 of January 24th 1923 to E... Linister.
GODY.
sir.
British Legation,
Peking. *4*
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Copy God H.K. Conf 34 Sep. 23
In continuation of my despatch No.30 of December
(12th 1922, I have the honour to report further on opium
.cultivation on the Burma China frontier.
In Burma itself the Indian Opium Act is applied
and no opium is grown. In the Kachin Kill Tracts of Hyitkyina
and Bhemo districte end the Lodaung in the Northern Shan
States the aching have been used to cultivate the poppy for
their own consumption, but in 1921 orders were given to prohibit
it and the prohibition has been strictly enforced during the
past two cold seasons. Genuine residente, but no others,
allowed to have in their poseesei on a half viss (1.8 lbs) of
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opium. The production a opium in these districts has
always been insufficient and supplies were and are smuggled
from China or brought in from the Northern Shan States.
the Myitkyina frontier the smuggling is considerable, for
is sent all over opium, if it can escape the excise officers,
the unadministered territories, even as far as the Hukong
Valley in the Chindwin district. It is possible that Shan
opium passes through China to reach its destination.
In the Northern Shan States cultivation has for yeara
been restricted to north and south Hseawi and Longlen, none
being allowed in Hsipaw and Teungpeng. In these two
a modification of the Indian Opium Act is in force.
while Leebio and the railway zone are controlled
ta tes
Similarly
with Panghai,
by the Exelse. These districts obtain their opium from the
opium-growing States.
In the latter States the population was warned in
1920 that measures to restrict cultivation would be introduced
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