OPIUM TRADE.
CHINESE MERCHANTS' GUAKANIEE. irnE-ss association.! (Received May 22, 9.3 n.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Chinese merchants engaged in tlio opium tnule, who weio pie.sent at a meeting, guvo a guarantee to abide by tlio request of the Government to prohibit tniflic, though it iv.wi pointed out (hat Mich a course- would mean a very big low. Bomc sl.it iMLiw wl'l'o pioilucen, showing llml from 15,1781b of opium import id into New South Wales in 1898 tlio quantity uw,o to nearly 29,0001b in 1901, iind fell to 18,0001b "in 1903, mespcilivo of tho nllogcd largo quunliiy smuggled. Ono of the spenkurs said if opium had never been forced on China by England i Chinamen would not liuvu hud a yellow face, and thcic would liiivo been no need for a \\ r lnto Aw-trnliu policy, foi colour was everything.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1905, Page 5
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OPIUM TRADE.
Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1905, Page 5
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