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SIR F. ABLES ON THE REMEDY, The point is whether the trattie which has arisen shall be officially controlled with the object of securing some degree of restriction. Sir Francis Aglea is clear upon the subject, and I leave him to state the case in the following short memo rudun with which he has been kind enough to furnish mein.
REPORT.
Hongkong. May 11th, 1921 of interest in the local market with very The week under review has been devoid
little business passing. The general tone is dull, but at the time of writing a slightly better feeling is evident. A broadening market may occur before ling as money is very plentiful,
The Shanghai market has been quiet for the greater part of the week on account of the Spring Race Meeting.
that the thousands of millious of HONGKONG WEEKLY SHARE cigarettes now amoked in Chias are likely substantially to diminish the craving for opium. That craving, however, is in the In a despateb the Peking correspondent blood of the Chinese, and they will satisfy of The Times writes: The recent sugit one way or another, whatever all the gestion by Sir Francis Aglen, Inspector Governments in the world may do General Chinesa Maritime Customs, that China should consider tho advisability legalising the domestic growth and traffic. in opiums will doubtless shock many who sympathise with the widespread endea vour to suppress the use of the drug.. In view of the sacrinces made by India in connection with opium, and the fact that China has for years forbidden the growth, transportation, importation, and use of it.. it is certainly startling to realise that' a serious proposal has been made to adopt a policy that runs counter to this letter and spirit of an important foreign treaty and to the supposed unanimous desire of the Chinese people, The In spector-General, however, speaks with special authority on the subject of opium, and, whether or not we like his remedy for the situation that has arisen, we are bound to consider his views in the light of the facts.
Experience has proved conclusively that it is impossible to bring to a successful issue in China any far-reaching, reform affeting public maruls without the sup port and constant pressure of Chinese public opinion. There is no indication whatsoever of any Chinese public opinion on the subject of native opium.
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mitted abuses which could not be correct- former is incomparably less harmful. The Docks. Wharves and Godowns.-Hong- ed while the country was disorganised, results of a noneffective prohibition are kong and Kowloon Wharves changed Civil war arose between North and South (not brought home to those foreigners who hands at $177 but at the close sellers and cultivation increased in the Southern are the main supporters of anti-opium as prevail at $173. Hongkong and Whampoa Provinces. The Peking Government con- sociations in China; they are hypnotised Docks continus very fat and can be had tinually exhorted the provincial author-hy the magic of the words opium prohibi at 8164. Hongkow Wharves are wanted ities to uphold the law, without success. tion and misled by the ease with which at Tls. 12. Shanghai Docks are naked HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD. of course, in regions beyond its control. the prohibition, deriving its support from for at Tls. 104. New Engineerings at Tis,
racial feeling, was enacted. Unless these of are quiet. - associations can create a genuine Chinese Lands Hotels nud Buildings-Hong- There has arisen throughout the length public opinion on the subject of native kong Lands were negotiated from $407 and breadth of China an immense busi-apium, they are beating the air so far down to $100 but the demand has slacken- ness in the smuggling of opium from the 14 the main question is concerned, and s Humphreys Estates have been the producing regions to the towns and cities, might as well close down. It is for these medium of a large business with sales up either open or secret. The officials almost reasons that I am convinced that, in to 826). Kowloon Lands are in request" THE everywhere connive at the trade. The public interests, China will eventually boat $77. Hongkong Hotels are weak with demand seems limitless, and it is not too obliged to legalise the trade. much to say that cultivation and con- sumption are growing so fast that it will
Oils and Mining-Raubs have been In a leading article the journal states: pôt be long before the use of opium will have become as general as it was beforeSir Francis Aglen has proposed the bought at 871 and there are more buyers the policy of suppression was inaugurat substitution of State regulation of the at the rate. Shell Trausports are rasier ed. Some observers are of the opinion growth and distribution of native opium with sellers at $7/0. that alrendy that day has arrived. for the system of total prohibition effect buyers of Kailan at 53/6 and Tronchs at ed by the legislation of 1907 and the 28 There is some demand for Lang Cultivation is officially promoted in the following years. In a memorandum far. kats with sales made up to Tis. 11. Provinces of Szechuan, Yunnan, Kwangi, nished to our correspondent, Sir Francis
ELECTRIC COMPANIES.-Chin Lights have Kweichow, Fukien, and in part of Shen-argues that no far-reaching reform which been comparatively quiet after the display si, and areas, great or small, are under affects public morals can be carried out of strength of the previous week and poppy, in the three Manchurian Pro- in China without the steady support of have been taken off the market at the vinces, in Honan, Hupei, Kansuh, Kiang Chinese opinion, and that there is no reduced price of $143 and $14,35 for the si, Shantung, and Sinking. As regards sign of any such support for the pro. Old and New shares respectively. Hong the Province of Fakien, a Chinese esti-hibition of native opium.
The suppres kong Trams were done at $25 in the early mate of the revenue likely to be derived pression of the growth of the poppy in part of the week, but have since receded from opium this year is. $30,000,000, prob- China was the condition precedent to our to 24. Hongkong Electrics have exper ably an exaggeration, but the mere fast suppression of the Indian export trade ienced a slight setback the market fall- that the Chinese think of the profits oh-in opium. loug & ainstay of Indian ing to 22. Macao Electrics have at last tainable in such large figures is instruc fuance. But from the moment when we exhibited symptoms of life and have tive. Ia Yunnan an official monopoly has had done our part they began again to changed hands at 58.
Cotton Mills.-Ewas have buyers at Tis. been established, and an arrangement was made to send 120 tons of opium to stow the poppy in increasing quan
tities.
Sir Francis Ağlen 14. All shares in this section are dull. Kwangsi, no doubt for ultunate transport naturally impressed by the demoralisation There is a fear that the boycott will have to Kwangtung. Of this aggregate. two with which wholesale smuggling in a some effect on Shanghai Cottons, con congnments of one hundred loads each commodity that is small in bulk and high sequently the price has weakened to Tis. got through safely, but a third consign-in price threatens bis own service. He 103. Orientals at Tis, & are nominal. ment of four hundred loads was looted by has told us how one officer was offered a Miscellaneous. China Providents have so-called rebel troops, a stratagem by bribe of £5,000, te overlook a single fallen away to 8942 at which they could which the Kwangsi provincial rulers are consignment, and how an employe was be placed. Dairy Farm have also weaken- supposed
have escaped.
paying terrorised by the abduction of his child ed and they are wanted at the close at $3,000,000.
and the threat that it would be murdered 8254. Green Island Cements are easier Another deal is of a highly surprising if he did his duty. The Customs have with sellers nt 8283. Hongkong Realty's character. It is alleged on good authority no police of their own, and, of course, have been put through at 21 and con- that the Yunnan Government Monopoly they do not get much help from the local tinue in request. There are enquiries for Bureau has arranged to send four bun authorities in the unpopular task of at- Steel Foundries at $12.60. Peak Trams dred tons of opium within a period of tempting to stop a traffic in which the (Old) at 911, (New) at 811, Union eight months into Indo-China, in transit whole countryside, from Tuchuns to Waterboats at $172. Watsons, at 818, Wm. for Kwangtang and elsewhere in China. coolies, is more or less interested. The Powells at 835, Canton, Tees at 0.50 the opium is to cross the frontier at a Inspector-General declares that foreign Engineering Constructions at $3.50 and point cast of Mentsze, thus evading the prohibitionists in China do not renliso Lane Crawfords at $172 ex the dividend foreign-controlled Customs, and will re- how grave this widespread demoralisation of $1 just paid. Hongkong Ropes are cat Chineas territory somewhere on the is. On the other hand, Sir John Jordan, available at 844" south-west border of Kwangtung, where who speaks with great authority, has de We have a New Company to add to there is no Customs station. The firstclared the Inspector-General's proposal our list, viz. The Hongkong and Kow consignment. escorted by troops. is be-to be retrograde, and it is certain that loon Taxi Cab Co., Ltd., which was float- lieved to have left Yunnanu, Yunnan Chinese educated abroad are vehemently ed with great access, the shares having will receive about $17,000,000 for the opposed to the use of opium. Sir John goods. It would be interesting to know Jordan says that the repeal of prohibi- what the Indo-China Opium Regie will tion would mean the revival of the old receive in transit dues, and how a French stigma upon the Chinese, the stigma that Colonini Government reconciles the they are an opium-ridden people, and he alleged transaction with the policy of axpresses the hope that there is yet France as expressed by ber adherence to enough public opinion in the country to
SIR JOHN JORDAN'S VIEWS. the International Opium Convention of resist such a relapse. There is no differ- 1912, which has been incorporated in the ence, it will be seen, between these ex- In a letter to The Times, Sir John Versailles Peace Treaty, In that docu-perts as to the fact that the 'opium habit Jordan states the whole position in China ment the contracting Powers agreo "to is a terrible evil, and that Chinese publio has not been fully realised in this country, prevent the export of raw opium to opinion is a chief weapon for resisting it, and it has apparently been a littlo countries which shall bave prohibited its | Where they do differ to the means understood in the United States if one entry."
of overcoming the evil. Sir Francis is may judge from the official Report of the for control by licence and gradual sur Hearings in February last before the These two transactions, involving the pression; Sir John is for total suppres Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washing. export of 590 tons, or nearly 9,000 chests, siou, even though total suppression is at ton on the question of limiting the pro- represent, of course, only a fraction of present a mere pretence. Sir Francis is duction of narcotic drags to medicinal and the total product of Yunnan which finds satisfied that there is no effective Chinese scientific purposes. He proceeds:
There are one or two points in your opinion favourable to the more drastic ita principal patles by the Yangtze system; Sir John hopes that this opinion articles
on which, with your per-.. Down this great river passes also the sur- exists or that it may be evolved. Where mission, I should like to add a few words plus from Szechuan and Kweichow,
Owing to the immense quantities avail men of such exceptional authority and of comment. I cannot endorse your Cor-
pre respondent's statement that the Chinese BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL. able, the price has fallen so low that even experience differ it would be the coolic class can now afford to indulge sumptuous to form a judgment without interest in the suppression campaign
exhaustive investigation. The Inspector 1907-17 was due to a desire to stop the Eighty Offices are established in the Principal to a moderato extent. Many of the old General may be bassed, however aacon- foreign importation, I was closely and Cities of the World to provide Commercial style officials now smoke openly, and the sciously, by the injury which a prohibi. actively associated during all those years Organisations and Private Individuals with practice, of course, issery prevalent tion that has become a sham is inflicting Peking and in the provinces and with most Travel Berrice.
with the Chinese nathorities both in complete World Wide Banking, Shipping and Among the troops. It is remarkable that upon his service; Sir John Jordan may of the representatives of public opinion in Sir Francis Aglen's suggestion has met be building hopes for the Chinn of to-day the country, and it is my firm conviction COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT.. with almost no adverse comment in the Chinese Press, and
upon knowledge of a China which has rally approved by the foreign news in the last few years:
gene undergone great and rapid changes with that the movement was aimed throughout DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS.
at the suppression of the native cultiva papers: It is true that the foreign educated Chinese do rot smoke opis is the one effective remedy, as it was the
Total abolition by international action tion, no less that at the stoppage of the
foreign importation. An and are strongly opposed to its use."
But this is past history, and you; Nevertheless, there are winy intelligent one effective remedy for the slave trade, have touched the realities of the present and well-informed Chinese who regard to abolish the slave trade, and years may success of prohibition has proved that a But more than a generation was needed situation when you say that the temporary. the opium habit as practically ineradic able, and who sce no hope for restriction be needed to obtain the total abolition public opinion does exist in China powerful of the nefarious drugs trade. Repression enough to overcome the opium habit, and of the traffic except in some measure of of consumption is relatively easy with po that it is our business to aronse it. With official control. But the Chinese as a gulations among whom the drug habit is that sentiment I am in cordial agreement, people are indifferent. They were arous new; it is a far more arduous task where and I think that the present moment offers ed to some extent at the time the opium a whole people have been accustomed a favourable opportunity for its, practical agreements were being negotiated pria from generation to generation to the und application. Prohibition and State regula cipally because the agitation was directed of a particular drug locally produced. tion of opium are both ineffective under against a foreign product.
It should be noted na an interesting China has proved that a public opinion effective
The temporary success of prohibition in presca conditions the alimination of'
in Chinn The only Travel Transaction. lion in fact an immediate result of the suppres docs exist there powerful enough to ever-militarian, which is responsible for the sion measures which were so surprisingly come the opium habit, if it is really revival of the cultivation. successful twelve years ago was an im- roused. Our business is to arcuse it, and this, the Chinege chambers of commarco British and American public opinion counti Becognising of several items in their programme. mense expansion of the demand for to favour the adoption of the strongest have already started a movement for the for much in China, and the fact that The morphia and kindred drugs. The illicit measures of restriction it will counten- removal of this incubus, which presses Times is arousing interest in the question trade in auch has grown to great dimerano The great point is to obtain them heavily on the whole economic life of the in this country should prove a powerful sions and is only beginning to show signa without weakening the only force that enuntry, and have solicited the co-operation stimulus to the representatives of the com of falling off since opium has again come can give them life.
of their foreign friends in the attainment mercial classes there, who have initiated freely on the market. It fa also believed
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