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The Committee observe: "Opium is carried in receptacles belted outside the bottom of a junk, in a hollowed out spar, in a compartment inside a tin of petrol or a jar of wine, in the leg of a bedstead, in a bag of flour, in a woman's hair, in fact in every possible place in which the ingenuity of the Chinese can devise means to hide an article the bulk of which is as small as its value is large."

The Committee have expressed their conviction that any diminution in the amount of opium legitimately available would undoubtedly be counterbalanced by an increase in the use of illicit opium and that if the use of opium were prohibited it is probable that the situation would get entirely out of hand. They suggest as a comparison the placing of a small foreign Government in Marseilles and the prohibition by it of the drinking of wine by the French within the town; except that opium is much more easily smuggled than wine.

They suggest that it is impossible to prevent indulgence, which they describe as habitual in a nation of four hundred million people, unless that nation desires to give up that indulgence, and unfortunately there is no present indication that the opium habit...

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#552##The Committee observe: "Opium is carried in receptacles belted outside the bottom of a junk, in a hollowed out spar, in a compartment inside a tin of petrol or a jar of wine, in the leg of a bedstead, in a bag of flour, in a woman's hair, in fact in every possible place in which the ingenuity of the Chinese can devise means to hide an article the bulk of which is as small as its value is large."The Committee have expressed their conviction that any diminution in the amount of opium legitimately available would undoubtedly be counterbalanced by an increase in the use of illicit opium and that if the use of opium were prohibited it is probable that the situation would get entirely out of hand. They suggest as a comparison the placing of a small foreign Government in Marseilles and the prohibition by it of the drinking of wine by the French within the town; except that opium is much more easily smuggled than wine.They suggest that it is impossible to prevent indulgence, which they describe as habitual in a nation of four hundred million people, unless that nation desires to give up that indulgence, and unfortunately there is no present indication that the opium habit...

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ustody diziw notiusqueɔ yrs conto de edebilævnt oð

add to ‚colini Jaa? siete [reridak ada (azomioł sati

**naldo mort donidelb eta soine •

- ri ne dor Esta nella os ens ouenido edit ed

ed to mitasri Lisom ytev a artot bes east augasy

-itted meadd to doua ni moỀả moita Luqoq Istod -Elyor to amataya add cred‡ betqohs ered as satrot ni) oveď vročom migo to yainolder has moldext

remeldte? njiexjë ind to zomisvol adt to welv edð

WIU NDISYOT Rs maaoove batimil s yim bevaidos -midroure suecoue noa bre saoitsfuqoq suomztbal 02 đi. th i new sucfiel of IteorJung

.naik #dź no servaasa enam odd asoqui

dead font need to Jalog s nolem OBIS TOMIOVOD

wo calcaríc bivow gainoitar Ens noldSTJE İST

yr^ đâi♥ „hysisli odai asemid? So mc:doxalme 10 erið bro yiqque ruodel edt noqu ajoɛ"le avoiTES

meli mo stoɑlle aucites yıav ed BETOO to

Jn evor e812 odd bebeqni mexíst servasem yna il .yneĺ00 ant od anido mort ensaio 20

-yod of

-ply

gao sud to weit edt ai gaoll yaol al II (aturno Temisrod odd Holdy ni) settimo groX migo to Lozdnos Laubivibni gaivlovák medays on to mojega ni bevlovni mi as down) sredoma oldiesoq si (gaineɔll bre moitantalger beddveirur edo eza midavši: odd cð andan

a. Tol micu rol bruneb beergs-ebiw s lo coned

Ie secondía súa Ignico erlð „aizomu to posOqING

,eoidorm, add "minmabao noiniqo oiiduq que Beanir 10 aciLqqqa betimi Iw to somedaixe edit aeosdemozio add ni buɛ,mulqo maieref ban deiXTOT De vtilidiesoqui Isıtılv edit ovode beniltro

of stopping smuɛɛling. The Committee

observe:- "Opium is carried in

reseptáoles belted outside the bottom

of a junk, in a hollowed out spar, in

a compartment inside a tin of petrol

or a jar of wine, in the leg of a bed-

stead, in a bag of flour, in a woman'ı

hair, in fast in every possible place

in which the ingenuity of the chinese

can devine means to hide un article

the bulk of which is as small as its

value is large,

their 12. The Committee have expresned/

conviction that any diminution in the

available would undoubtedly be amount of opium legitimately, counter-

balansed by an increase in the use of

illicit opium and that if the use of

opium were prohibited it is probable

that the situation would get entirely

out of hand, They suggest as a

comparison the placing of a mall

foreign Government in darseilles and the

prohibition by it of the drinking of

wine by the French within the tow;

except that opium is much more easily

mzugɛled than wine,

They suggest that

it is impossible to prevent indulgence

which they describe as

in a practive/habitual in a nation of

four hundred million people unless

that nation desires to give up that

indulgence, and unfortunately there

is no present indication that the opium

habit

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