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OPIUM IN CHINA..

FORMER HONGKONG GOVERNOR'S VIEWS.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE LOST SUBMARINE.

London, November 18. Vessels from Portland, ineluding the anti-submarine flotilla and minesweepers and a flotilla of so-called P barits equipped with hydro- phone instruments were engaged in a fruitless all day search for the M1, They were re-called at evening but are under orders to proceed to sea at any moment. The M1 is believed to be lying" in some two hundred and fifty feet of water which will render rescue by divera im- possible on account of her twelve inch gun.

The Influence of the Bolshevist,

"Opium smoking can be stopped in Hongkong in six months, at most a year, from the time China cease to grow opium, but while the Chin

At the time of her launching in 1918 the M1, was originally the ese retain their natural ingenuity and cheap opium, it is a little diffK18 and was constructed for the protection of trade routes. She made cult to see how we can keep it naval history but she was withheld from war service in order to pre- out." Thus Sir Edward Stubbs, vent the Germans from learning her important aceret.

until recently Governor of Hong- kong, summed up the situation in regard to opium in Hongkong in the course of an interesting inter- view with a Free Press reporter at Government House at Singapore. Sir Edward, who had occupied the position he has just vacated since 1919, is on his way to England by the Khiva.

By the irony of fute the mishap occurred a few hours before the men were to return to shore frein the manœuvres which were inter- rupted by the recent heavy weather and which were due to terminate last night-Reuter

THE SPANISH TURMOIL.

London, November 15. The Spanish Embassy in London has issued a statement that it has received a telegram from the Spanish Government afirming that certain generals and officers of the Spanish army reserve who had I will tell you what I have toid already incurred disciplinary' penalties and whose prestige in the everywhere else," Sir Edward said army was very small had endeavoured unsuccessfully to provoke a to his interviewer when questioned rising among the troops who denounced the conspiracy to the authori- on the subject of opium. "Opium ties.-Reuter smoking in Hongkong can be stop-

Le Journal publishes a dispatch from Madrid stating that two ped within six months or at most

year from the time that Ching generals and four colonels, four majors and several subalterns wanted together with, fourteen non-commissioned officers have been arrested ceases to grow opium. I

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Paris, November 13.

THE WORLD'S OIL INTERESTS.

London, November 13.

to do it, but it cannot be done until and imprisoned as a result of the discovery of a plot against the ceases. Directory. The conspirators, aimed at the proclamation of a republic. opiam growing in China The coastline is a wide one and The plot was discovered owing to a violent dispute among the con- you cannot keep control over things spirators.-Reuter coming in. A junk can get ashore anywhere. We know perfectly well that opium is dropped, buoyed with bamboo floats, in the Channel and picked up. The Chinese grown oplum can be sold at a profit at two dollars tael, while our superior brand is sold at fourteen dollars a tact. The point is, we have checked the consumption of! opium in the only way so far as we can see, and that is by putting up the price so that it is beyond the possibility of the ordinary person to smoke it in large quantities, The result, so far, is to drive pen- ple to use the cheaper Chinese opium. It is obvious that we get rid of that the cessation of the Government supply would have

The Morning Pust claims that it is informed in city circles that an American group of seven oil companies wherein the Standard Oil Company is conspicuous, have withdrawn from the Turkish Betroleum" Company.-Reuter.

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BRAZIL'S COFFEE LOAN.

Washington, November 13.

Mr. Hoover has issued a statement that the loans to Brazil in support of coffee price valorisation have been refused by New York bankers at the instance of the Administration.-Reuters American Service.

THE ITALIAN LIRA,

New York, November 18.

As a result of the Italian debt settlement the lira has rallied

the matter is simply the oheap sharply, mounting ten points to 4.06 ceata.-Rester.

Chinese opium; when that is stop- ped definitely opium smoking in Hongkong will he stopped at once."

That was his great weakness, his fondness for the limelight..

Illicit Opium on British Warship. Chinese generals. It was just as difficult to know which side they Many amusing stories could be

were on; they were on one side one Loss Of Opium Revenue Foreseen told in connection with the illegal week and on the other the next. попе perhaps Speaking from a personal sequain- It was not really a very serious opium traffic, but problem in Hongkong, Sir Edwardmore so than that relating to the taneeship with the Chinese leader, stated. He agreed that there was big haul on one of the British war-Sir Edward said that Sun Yat-sen, YOU NEED FIRE PROTECTION abuse of the subit, but not wide ships at Wei-hai-wei, of opium with all his faults; was a big man. spread abuse. That he ascribed to which must have been there when There was no question, he con- Governor WIS onsidered, that he was dead.. When the control by raising the price and Hongkong's Government's endeavours to stamp board. "Something like $200,000 he saw him two or three years age out the opium divals commonly worth of opium was found conceal-he was then obviously not the man known as "dens." Hongkong dur-ed behind the wainscoting in the he had been. If he had not bee ing the past year derived a revenue captain's cabin," Sir Edward. said.dead he would liave been back in of a trifle under three and a halfThe captain was not using it at the limelight long before this million dollars from opium; had it the time. As a matter of fact," not been for the boycott it would he sold laughingly, "I had been theru myself." The have probably been between four steeping

Hongkong Currency Dilk-ulties.. and a half and five million dollars. opium had been concealed there by

Hongkong is suffering from lack That is not profit; expenses are the captain's boy. The size of the pretty considerable. The Govern problem may be indicated by the of trade, not only on account of fact that in one seizure alove more the boycott- which was the outcome the ment of Hongkong foresaw possibility of having to dispense than two tons of opium was disc-of the recent trouble, hat on ac with this revenue long ago, and at vered, in the neighbourhood of count of the ruin which the Bol- once started to develop other Hongkang, but obviously intended shevists had brought the pro to be smuggled into China territory vinces in the south. What needed The result ig that Hongkong could have dispensed by degrees. Matters are not ren-to be made dear, Sir Edward stated with 'the opium revenue, not with-dered more easy by the fact that in regard to the decision of the out inconvenience, but without most of the armies engaged in the Straits Government, to advance. internecine warfare in China at the Hongkong sums up to a million definite disaster.

present time are paid froma the pounds, was that what Hongkong Registration as proposed in the proceeds of opium, and some Chin needed was not so much money3 Siraits would not be possible in ese generals are forcing people to currency. The difficulty, he stated, had been, the lack of actual circu Hongkong, according to Sir Edward. grow it

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In normal times, he explained, Opium is not so serious a pro-lating, medium, and the needi waa there were tens of thousands of blem so far as China is concerned to get a sufficient supply of notes i on trade. people coming Into- Hongkong for as the drug qucation is going to and, silver to carry

a day or two, by steamer, railway, be, Sir Edward declared. The im- There was obviously a good deal of by junk, and on foot. It is the portations of heroin into Hong-hoarding. Nates and aller were simplest matter for those people to kang, for instance, have been very in existence which were being bring opium in with them, when large. Easy as it is to smuggin kept. The result of the Imperial they can conceal on their persons opium, the, smuggling of drugs is Government coming out openly to enough oplum to lasta whole much more easy. The chance of support the Hongkong Goxern- bad becn .to establish family of normal smokers for a discovering Hlicit oplum was above ment

and, 4.5 far д month. A strict process of search one in three," in Sir Edward con@dence

could judge. to bring might be instituted, but even the view, but in this case of drugs it one

one in ten. Further out a certain amount of the notev Chinese would not stand that was about searching is strict enough as it is. more, Europeans were not con-and silver that were being hoorded, While the Chinese retained their cerned in the smuggling of opium, It was improbable that anything natural ingenuity and their cheap but Europeans were largely in the amount originally suggest- oplum it was difficult to see how terested in the smuggling of drugs. ed would be required. Nothing had actually been drawn yet. opium can be kept out, Sir Edward Bolsheviks in Command at Canton. The loan from the Straits would declared, paying an unconscious tri-

The recent trouble in Hongkongnot have been direct; the money bute to the cleverness of the po- and elsewhere Sir Edward un- was being placed at the disposal of ple engaged in the oplum smuggling hesitatingly attributed to Bolshevist the Imperial Government for the trado. The trouble in the past has influences. The Soviet representa benefit of Hongkong. When Sir been the enormous quantity of Pertive in Canton, he declared, con- Edward, left Hongkong the Com- sian opium that has been smuggled trolled the government. As far hemittee which he appointed to look into Hongkong. There is prac Hongkong was concerned now, the into the matter was just complet- tically no Indian growa oplum go-place was as peaceful and orderlying the task of enquiring into ing in. The cleverness and ingen-as it had ever been; rather more applications for loans, and until uity of the Chinese in smuggling so perhaps, because of the number those figures had been completed. anything is notorious, and the ori-of scoundrels who have been de-it was not known what amount entals who engage in opium smug ported. Actual crime was pro-they would have to ask for, or to gling are evidently no exception to bably less than it had been for what extent the currency would the general rule. The bollow leg rears. He had been away from need to be supplemented. The of bedsteads, the hollowed out Hongkong for three days and he money required would be set wooden part of buckets, the soles Imagined that the situation in down in London as a cover for of shoes, even women's hair, afford China had entirely changed in that notos faened locally and some effective hiding places for the time. It varied from day to day, would possible be for the purchase. small packets of illicit oplum. just as did the position of the of silver to be coined into dollars.

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