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THE OPIUM SMUGGLING
TRADE.
SOME TRICKS OF THE ARABS AND EGYPTIANS.
LITTER OF SHANGHAI KITTENS.-
It was in the little room of house in an Arab port overlooking the Red Sea that I was asked to
Lawn Tennis:"B" Division: Indian R.C. Army T. Kow loon C.C. v. Chinese R.C., M.P.K.
Civil Service, Nippon Club v. become a smuggler of opium, writes University, South China. Crai Mr. W. J. Makin in the Evening gengoward "C" Division: Y.M.. C.A. . Kowloon .C., Craigen Standard. I was on my way back gower C.C. z. Kowloon Indiane, to England recently from Abys Chinese H.C. Civil Service, Chub einig
de Recreio . Indian R.C., Hong Kong C.C... University; Dentecher
"You will, I know, pardon me,"
Club South China, Army T.O.asid. the Indian merchant as an
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Queen's Theatre: "Women Every where."
World Theatre: "Trader Horn." Star Theatre: "The Sea Wolf,”* King's Theatre: "City Streeta.” Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.
St. Paul's Hospital Bazaar, Causeway Bay.
Еигорели Mail-Outwardi Europe via Bucz (Rawalpindi) 10-30
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Tides:-High at 12.00 and 10.32;
Low at 4.00 and 8.12.
Sunday,
“Everybody does it if he thinks there's a good chance of getting; through with the stuff," said the skipper of the little tramp steamer" that carried me up the Red Sea..
I have even done it myself,” As "uzual, tho skipper" was in pink pyjamas, and loading on the bridge. I knew that as soon as eight bells sounded he would wan,
Arab sorvant brought into the roomder to his cabin, mix himself a the bamboo pipe, the little lamp, drink and play hymns on a noisy and the dark brown paste, concertina. So, in the half-hour ot my disposal, I persuaded him to usually smoke at this hour."
bell me something about the opium
1 nodded, sipping at my cup of smugglers. coffee.
You will not join me the Indian, politely..
Alexandría and Suez are the asked easiest ports. Some of the opium.
traffickers declare that since the Egyptians took over the Customs they can always bribo their stuff through. But backsheesh can, become expensive. the paying of
Smuggling, therefore, is well worth while,
I shook my head, "Perhaps it is as well," be mur murod, holding at the end of a steel needle a black head of opiuar that spluttered above the flame of the lamp. Orientals find solaco în the smoking of opium. Wester Usually, tins of opium encased in nora, alas, use the drug to excess." waterproof coverings are dumped. I watched, fascinated at the de overboard from liners and tramp. liberate ritual with which the re-steamers within a few miles of the Baseball: U.8.8. Heleda v. Southgular opium smoker prepares his African shore. A little floating.
buoy marks the spot. Late at night: a felucca ora motorboat steals out from a shore and recovers the submerged cargo. It is landed among the solitary sand dune
(July 19.)
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drug. The sis-ling brad was thrust deftly into the pinhole of the pipe, Then, slawly-not in the greedy gulp of the white man--the Indian sucked in the smoke.
£100 Temptation.
"And to-morrow your set sail for Tides: High at 12.54 and 11.41; Suez?" he murmured. Low at 4.49 and 6.55.
"Yes,"
Monday,
(July 20.).
Money, is very useful," added the Indian, reffectively. Suppose someone in Suez should give you (Tienhundred pounds the moment you
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"I should be delighted,” I said, "draining my cup of coffee. "How "
"By taking a tin sahoro
a tin of opium." The Indian per mitted a smile to cross his grave features. Opium is badly needed in Egypt."
I did not accept his offer to smuggle opium into Egypt. But if I-bad, I should not have been the first white man to pats through
Suez with the delectable drug in my baggage.
Sometimes the opium is trans- ferred from the decks of small. steamers in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea to the smaller craft. Thésa felucena 'and 'motorboata can
and a tortuous passage among the coral reefs to some lonely part of the beach, and there the stuff is buried in the sand.
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Colossal Fortunes, A good deal of opium is smuggled through. Port Said, although it ia not so easy in that port as Alex- andria or Suez. Eventually, either tians, the opium is carried into by the use of Bedouins or Egyp Cairo, the headquarters of the drug, ayndicate.. Some Arabs make the emuggling of opium their chief special camels for the purpose, means of livelihood. They breed beasts which are wiry and strong and trained to make no noise when loading or unloading. A camel of this kind is easily worth £500.
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