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Chitchat Blast from Singapore's past
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don't forget find pictures of white Christians British governor opium dens in every corners of Singapore to piped the coolies.
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm
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As China tightened her borders, Britain pinned her hopes on her other Asian colonies. Opium production in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan) rose from 353,938 pounds in 1916 to 370,688 pounds in 1920, in spite of Britain’s promise at the Hague Convention to limit opium sales. In 1918, 60% of Britain’s Asian income was derived from opium sales. In 1925, opium accounted for 48% of Singapore’s revenue, and 100% of North Borneo’s. At the 1923 Opium Conference, Mr. Campbell admitted that the British Indian government was determined to maintain high levels of both internal consumption and export, and that they,
“controlled the production, distribution, sale, possession – every possible practical question which could arise in connection with opium—in the strictest possible manner—They had built up a complicated and highly efficient administrative system which started from the time the poppy seed was put into the ground, and did not relinquish control of the drug until it was in the hands of the consumers, or till it was actually exported.”
Some wits noted wryly that the Crown did all but light the addicts’ pipes.
When Indians begged Britain to abandon the opium policy, Britain responded that her opium monopoly was a humanitarian service to India (as it had been to China), and that to end the trade would be “a mockery; to many millions it would be sheer inhumanity.”
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban, Israeli politician
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm
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As China tightened her borders, Britain pinned her hopes on her other Asian colonies. Opium production in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan) rose from 353,938 pounds in 1916 to 370,688 pounds in 1920, in spite of Britain’s promise at the Hague Convention to limit opium sales. In 1918, 60% of Britain’s Asian income was derived from opium sales. In 1925, opium accounted for 48% of Singapore’s revenue, and 100% of North Borneo’s. At the 1923 Opium Conference, Mr. Campbell admitted that the British Indian government was determined to maintain high levels of both internal consumption and export, and that they,
“controlled the production, distribution, sale, possession – every possible practical question which could arise in connection with opium—in the strictest possible manner—They had built up a complicated and highly efficient administrative system which started from the time the poppy seed was put into the ground, and did not relinquish control of the drug until it was in the hands of the consumers, or till it was actually exported.”
Some wits noted wryly that the Crown did all but light the addicts’ pipes.
When Indians begged Britain to abandon the opium policy, Britain responded that her opium monopoly was a humanitarian service to India (as it had been to China), and that to end the trade would be “a mockery; to many millions it would be sheer inhumanity.”
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban, Israeli politician
Someone asked for opium shots.
Circa 1941
One of them must be tanwahtiu's father.
thanks bro.
any pictures how the governor drug lord anmgoh live quality life style in Singapore at the expense of Chinese addicts.
1. angmoh club house;
2. angmoh shopping centres;
3. angmoh government residential houses c/w swimming pools
4. angmoh kid goes to schools
5. angmoh smoked tobacco pipes instead of opium?
anythings to do with angmoh live like drug lord king in Singapore.
any pictures how the governor drug lord anmgoh live quality life style in Singapore at the expense of Chinese addicts.
1. angmoh club house;
2. angmoh shopping centres;
3. angmoh government residential houses c/w swimming pools
4. angmoh kid goes to schools
5. angmoh smoked tobacco pipes instead of opium?
anythings to do with angmoh live like drug lord king in Singapore.
Someone asked for opium shots.
Circa 1941
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should the mainly Chinese population shared and enjoyed the same quality life style, as a non-white British subjects in Singapore, with the white British?
Sad To see this picture no quality life style to the Chinese biz man in banking and warehousing biz under the British governor of Singapore?
Sad To see this picture no quality life style to the Chinese biz man in banking and warehousing biz under the British governor of Singapore?
OUB godowns undated
Serangoon 1966?
That looks like the junction of Serangoon Rd & Bulit Timah Road.
You can see the original location of Tekka Market, the white building on the left. Opposite Tekka Market, across the road was a police station. They moved the market to it's current location where the police station used to be located.
Serangoon 1966?
1966 got color picture and so clear some more. Surprise.
The gal in red look cute. Now is a grandma or maybe mat liao :*:
one Indian small boy at the bottom left, probably Nathan when he was young.
in 1966? see so many happy faces whom they voted for who?
in 1966? see so many happy faces whom they voted for who?
PAP will build hawker centers for these roadside hawkers soon. Guess who they voted for?
Sembawang 1967
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