at
whilst in recent years the main distributors have been Japanese,
the main manufacturers have been British. The morphia has been
exported in large quantities from Edinburgh to Japan, but as the
result of licensing the exports of this drug from Great Britain,
the shipments to Japan dropped from 600,229 ounces in 1917 to
one-fourth that amount in 1918. _The Japan Chronicle_, speaking
from "absolutely authentic information," states that 113,000 ounces
of morphia arrived in Kobe from the United States in the first five
months of 1919. These figures are not given as the total shipments
received in Kobe, but merely as the quantity of which _The
Chronicle_ has actual knowledge. It states further that this
morphia is being transhipped in Kobe harbor to vessels bound for
China. Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, who has resigned his post as Minister
to China, has stated that he will use every resource in his power
to stop the shipment from America of morphia intended for
distribution in China, in defiance of the international convention
which prohibits the sale of the drug in that country.

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If sufficient publicity is cast upon the distributors, Japanese,
English and American, public sentiment may in time take cognizance
of the source of all this mischief, namely, the producer.

IV

SINGAPORE

In January, 1917, we found ourselves at Singapore, a British
dependency, situated at the end of the Malay Peninsula, and one of the
greatest seaports of the Orient. We were stopping at the Hotel de
l'Europe, a large and first class hotel. The first morning at
breakfast, the waiter stood beside us, waiting for our order. He was a
handsome young Malay, dressed in white linen clothes, and wearing a
green jade bracelet on one wrist. We gave him our order and he did not
move off. He continued to stand quietly beside our chairs, as in a
trance. We repeated the order--one tea, one coffee, two papayas. He
continued to stand still beside us, stupidly. Finally he went away. We
waited for a long time and nothing happened. At last, after a long
wait, he returned and set before us a teapot filled with hot water.
Nothing else. We repeated again--tea, coffee, papayas. We said it two
or three times. Then he went away and came back with some tea. We
repeated again, coffee and fruit. Eventually he brought us some coffee.
Finally, after m