The Archive · 1927

NARCOT IMPORTS INTO CHINA

Opium Association and Details of Japanese Trade The following extracts from a statement issued by the National JAnti-Opium Association of China fare published, as showing their view of the Japanese influence on the: drag trade with China, To show the extent of the illicit trade carried on by the Japanesi [Chinese territory, we shall in the following enumerate some of the significant instances that have come to our knowledge.

The total seizures of nacet made at the ports of Shangl Tientsin and Tsingtao in the 1925 are 10,846 ounces, of 15,214 ounces are Japanese If the same ratio cent Hes, th amount of Japanese narcotics—mor phfa, heroin and cocaine, ete.—seized by the Chinese Maritime Customs in the year 1926 would be somewhe-e about 23,000 ounces, the total se [ures the year being approx Ty 48,297 ounces.

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