International Opium Commission
SHANGHAI, CHINA
February 1 to February 26, 1909
Vol. Il. REPORTS OF THE DELEGATIONS
SHANGHAI :
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD.
1909

CONTENTS.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Report    ...    i
Statistical Tables    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    25
Appendix A, Act to restrict-the sale, etc., of opium in the Philippine Islands    26
,    B,    do.    do.    32
Importations of opium    ...    ...    .    ...    •••    •••    40
Appendix C, Act to amend tariff laws of the Philippine Islands    42

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY :
Statement ...    43

CHINA :
Report.
I.—Historical Note on Opium    44
I I.—Foreign Opium ...    46
II I.—Native Opium ...    •    54
IV.—Consumption of Opium...    62
V.—Morphia ...    66
VI.—Anti-opium Remedies    70
VIL—Anti-opium Measures ...    73
VIII.—Extracts from reports of Commissioners of Customs re iesults of the
Anti-Opium Movements    73
Appendix A, Imperial Decrees    ...    79
B, Government Regulations, etc.    79
C, Provincial proclamations, regulations, Memorials, etc.    94
Extracts from telegraphic reports ...    117
Questions put to Chinese Delegation, with replies    f 18

FRANCE :
Report    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    122
Annexes 1 to 18, Laws ordinances, statistical tables Questions put to French Delegation, with replies...    ...    127

GERMAN EMPIRE :        ist
Report    •    153
Supplement to the Report ...    ...    158,

GREAT BRITAIN :       
Opium.       
Paper    I.—Great Britain        161
II.—Weihaiwei        162
If    I I I.—Hongkong-    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...        162
73    IV.—Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States        163
V.—Ceylon    ...        166
n    VI.—Australia        167
Morphia, Morphine, etc.       
Paper    I.—Great Britain        169
,1    I I.-Hongkong    ...        169
13    III.—Straits Settlements    •    171
1)    IV.—Ceylon    ...    ...    ...    •    171
Report on Opium and Morphia in Canada    •    171
Memorandum on Opium in India ...    ..    173
Memorandum on Morphia in India    ...    ...    ...    ••    D94-
Ordinances, Regulations, Notifications, etc., by the Hongkong Government    ••    195
Qqestions put to British Delegation, with replies...    ...    ...    ••    241

ITALY :
Memorandum    ...    249

JAPAN :    ...    250
History of the control of Opium    ...    ...       
Laws, regulations, and Statistics of Japan...    ...    25r
Report on Opium in Formosa    ...    ...    ...    ...    ...    267
Questions put to the Japanese Delegation, with replies    ...    ...    289

NETHERLANDS:       
Memorandum concerning the Opium Régie Service in Netherlands India    •-•    294
Questions put to the Netherlands Delegation, with replies    •-•    3r5

PERSIA :       
Memorandum on Opium produced in Persia    •••    317
Questions put to the Persian Delegation, with replies    ...    3 19

PORTUGAL:       
Memorandum    ...    ...    ...    ...    32o
Appendices A and B, Agreements    ...    ...    325
Appendix C, Contract with Chinese Syndicate    ..    326

SIAM :       
Statement    ...    ...    ...        329
Annexes-1 to 8, laws, regulations, etc.        33o
Correspondence    ...        347
Telegrams received by the Commission        352
Report of Committee on Trade Statistics...    ...        35 5
Report of Committee on Poppy Cultivation, etc. ...        355
Report of Committee on Revenue Statistics, etc....    ...        359
Report of Committee on Existing International Agreements        366
Summary of Report    ...        372
Agreement concerning the publication of the Minutes and Reports of the International Opium Commission.