Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — OPIUM BAN BOOMS TRADE [ARTICLE]

OPIUM BAN BOOMS TRADE

Persia’s Exports Increase Sixfold Since Prohibition Law Went into Effect in China. Rotterdam. —The prohibition of the import of opium in China has been responsible for a big expansion of Persia’s trade with the Dutch East Indies. According to the report for 1915 drawn up by the Persian consul at Rotterdam, that country’s exports to the Dutch colonies in 1913-14 Increased about sixfold, viz., from some $135,000 to $1,186,000. Persian opium is now exported to the Netherlands East Indies, being thence re-exported to Formosa, making up practically the whole of the total figure mentioned.