The consumption figures for opium are subject to some doubt. The question is whether the figures related to sales of prepared opium in the corresponding Table in the Report of the French Government are accurate.
An allowance for loss in boiling (40 per cent) has therefore to be made in comparing the French figures with the Indian figures.
It is also to be noticed that the French returns of imports of raw opium from India into Indo-China, as contained in the Reply of the French Government to the questionnaire and the Report for 1921, vary considerably in some years from the Indian figures. The French figures from 1910 to 1921 are as follows:
1910 - 67832 kilos
1911 -
1912 -
1913 - 4110
1914 - 206718
1915 -
1916 -
1917 - 209100
1918 - 194880
1919 - 193800
1920 - 117200
1921 - 585030
It is difficult to relate these figures to the Indian figures, even allowing for the fact that in one case they are imports and in the other exports, and that consignments towards the close of the year might appear as exports in one year and imports in the next. The figure for 1921 is two and a half times as large as the Indian export for that year.
The explanation of the difference is not known to the Home Office. The explanation suggested by the French representative on the Opium Advisory Committee at its Fifth Session (Minutes, page 46) is not convincing.
Taking the total of each of the sets of figures for the years 1914-1921, which are covered by all the sets, the following results are obtained:
The total number of chests exported from India during 1914-1921 was 18560 = 1,168,364 kilos.
The number of kilos imported during those years according to the French figures is 1,637,596.
The number of kilos consumed during those years according to the French figures was 746,295 prepared opium = 1,248,825 kilos raw opium.
It will be seen that while the French consumption figures tally fairly closely with the Indian export figures, they are much below the French import figures.
The situation is generally so obscure as to justify inquiry being addressed to the French Government.
It may be remarked here, in parenthesis, that the French Government in the Report referred to, and at the Conference, claimed the reduction in consumption between 1917 and 1921 as proof of the efforts made by France and the sincerity of its attitude.
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