CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 444

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will be seen, however, from the Table above that the four years 1916–1919 are exosṛtional and that otherwise the figuren do not show much variation. The increase in those four years ms attributed by the French représentative on the Opium Advisory Committee (Minutes Fifth Session, page

to "the moral and material upheaval in Indo-Chinu. brenght about by the war. The acousulation of wealth, the abundant

ride drep, the rise in mges, all eroated fresh neeća," According to recent information the inrends of smuggled Ühinese opium have led to a deerssss in the consumption of Government opium, and a consequent falling-off in the revemse which has seriously alarmed the authorities of Indo-

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3. A further question, however, is whether the number f mokers in Indo-Uhina is sufficient to account for the

to hain been consumed amount imported or reported; The number of mokers was stated by M.Glinghamt at the Opium Conference to be 5/1000ths of the population (20 millions) or about $0,000.

estionnaire.

In the French Reply to the League of Nations

the same figuro is given, but it is stated to refer to *burdened smokers", The percentage of hardened mokerS cannot be estimated at more than 5 per 1000 or the total population (30,050,000 inhabitants) and ↑ per 1000 of the adult male population" In the French Government's Report

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to the League of Nations for 1921 the number is put at about 110,000, of who 1,000 were Chinese. At the Fifth Session of the Opå as Advisory Committee M.Brenier en tå uted the Chinese population of Indo-China at about 546,000.

In Hong Kong, where the Chinese populatiem is nearly

a milllest and the mmber of makers is probably twice the mmmber in Indo-China, the annual consumption does not exceO .. 300 chests. It is not sugested that this comparison can be pressed on the French Government as it was maintained at the First Opim Conferanse that the wide variations show. by the figures of different territories are ửng to variations

Still, the centrest of local slraumstances and habits. between the Indo-Chinese figures and the Hong Kong figures la remaşkable. The figures of jalaya,kowowin, while also greatly in ensoss of the Hong Kong figures, nevertheless, compare favourabl with those of Indo-China,

The Chinese population of British Malaya in 1921 ma 1,176,777, of whom 848,775 were males, 665,050 adult males ever 21. Hokkiens santribute. 300 per 1000 of the Chinese

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