|
1903-4 £ |
1904-5 £ |
1905-6 £ |
1906-7 £ |
1907-8 £ |
1908-9 £ |
1909-10 £ |
1910-11 £ |
1911-12 £ |
1912-13 £ | |
|
China Treaty Ports | 1,610,296 | 1,504,604 | 1,130,372 | 1,031,065 | 1,215,147 | 2,703,871 | 1,234,432 | 2,203,670 | 3,614,887 | 3,242,902 |
| Hongkong | 3,576,431 | 4,036,436 | 3,775,826 | 3,771,409 | 3,145,403 | 2,230,755 | 3,377,222 | 3,963,264 | 3,019,858 | 2,400,084 |
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Straits Settlements | 1,365,743 | 1,262,834 | 1,163,529 | 1,150,506 | 1,169,018 | 1,032,220 | 1,234,763 | 1,692,053 | 1,099,801 | 704,870 |
| Java | 63,402 | 78,383 | 70,960 | 78,117 | 113,343 | 88,410 | 138,035 | 386,825 | 362,120 | 383,408 |
| Siam | 93,323 | 58,000 | 47,062 | 30,150 | 4,383 | 17,533 | 0 | 10,217 | 190,657 | 263,177 |
| Macao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 236,420 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76,817 | 129,545 |
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French Indo-China | 212,247 | 76,333 | 50,345 | 52,673 | 84,742 | 118,933 | 207,287 | 207,722 | 325,500 | 99,018 |
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Other Countries | 58,668 | 65,705 | 76,418 | 82,361 | 49,616 | 41,107 | 17,366 | 45,565 | 36,420 | 15,659 |
| Total | 6,980,110 | 7,082,295 | 6,314,512 | 6,205,281 | 5,781,652 | 6,232,829 | 6,209,105 | 8,509,316 | 8,726,060 | 7,481,088 |
| Page 196 | Table 170 | Congressional Library HA 1713-A3-Ref. |
From Statistical Abstract Relating to British India, 1905-6 to 1911-15.
Page 181. Table 164. Exports of Opium to Various Countries.
| 1910-11 | 1911-12 | 1912-13 | 1913-14 | 1914-15 | ||
| French Indo-China | £129,502 | 291,425 | ||||
| Java | 472,199 | 282,252 | ||||
| Siam | 164,030 | 204,328 | ||||
| China-Hongkong | 1,084,093 | 110,712 | ||||
| Straits Settlements | 226,500 | 80,572 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 927 | 2,907 | 1,180 | 18,433 | 58,148 | |
| Treaty Ports, China | 27,833 | 0 | ||||
| Macao | 18,295 | 0 | ||||
| Japan | 119,913 | 100,659 | ||||
| Other countries | 19,223 | 47,543 | ||||
| Total | £2,280,031 | 1,175,639 | ||||
III
JAPAN AS AN OPIUM DISTRIBUTOR
In an article which appeared in the New York Times, under date of February 14, 1919, we read: "A charge that the Japanese Government secretly fosters the morphia traffic in China and other countries in the Far East is made by a correspondent in the North China Herald in its issue of December 21st last. The correspondent asserts that the traffic has the financial support of the Bank of Japan, and that the Japanese postal service in China aids, although 'Japan is a signatory to the agreement which forbids the import into China of morphia or of any appliances used in its manufacture or application.'
"Morphia no longer can be purchased in Europe, the correspondent writes. The seat of industry has been transferred to Japan, and morphia is now manufactured by the Japanese themselves. Literally, tens of millions of yen are transferred annually from China to Japan for the payment of Japanese morphia....
"In South China, morphia is sold by Chinese peddlers, each of whom carries a passport certifying that he is a native of Formosa, and therefore entitled to Japanese protection. Japanese drug stores throughout China carry large stocks of morphia. Japanese medicine vendors look to morphia for their largest profits. Wherever Japanese are predominant, there the trade flourishes. Through Dairen, morphia circulates throughout Manchuria and the province adjoining; through Tsingtao, morphia is distributed over Shantung province, Anhui, and Kiangsu, while from Formosa morphia is carried with opium and other contraband by motor-driven fishing boats to some point on the mainland, from which it is distributed throughout the province of Fukien and the north of Kuangtung. Everywhere it is sold by Japanese under extra-territorial protection."