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OPIUM TRAFFIC.
Interesting Shipping Case,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1923.
The Magistrate said he would hear Mr. Davidson's submissions after the cross-examination.
A Good Riding Place. Mr. Davidson asked the Chineso Revenue Officer:. The placé was The hearing was resumed “a! an extremely “good”- “hiding · place, the `Magistracy yesterday after-was it not?—Yes.
noon, of a case in which the firm Mr. Davidson: It was in the of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. hollow between the castinga?→→ WAK summoned by the Super-Vex.
intendent of Imports and Exports It could be reached with home for allowing their steamer, the difficulty from the side you reach-: Loong Sang, for the conveyanceled it and also from underneath ?--- ar exportation of 500 tsels of pre-Yes. Įpared opium aá April 27th.
From whom did you get par- Mr. D. J. Lloyd, Superintendent mission to go on board?--Inspec- of Imports and Exports, prosecuted tor Lannigan went to see the Chief: and Mr. E. Davidson defended. · Officer, or some.one on the ship
Giving evidence of the discovery as soon as we got on board. of the opium, Revenue Officer Kou It was known that the opium was Tak said the search party was in going to be put on board the Loong charge of Revenue Officer Lanni Sang before you want on board?- gan. He first searched the stake- Yes.
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there. He next went down to the prevent it from being put on board engine room and from two cham-and seize it? STEAM LAUNCH FOR SALE bers, covered over by tin plates.
The Magistrate asked Mr. David- de unsariben difey tins of opium.son to indicate whether he meant
Examined by Mr. Lloyd, witness Revenue Officers or not. said it was difficult to get at the Mr. Davidson: I am instructed place of concealment. Before he it was Revenue Officers, but the could reach it he had to get through last witness (Inspector Lannigan) an olly, dirty space. The work of said it was an informer. secreting the opium, in his opinion, Mr. Davidson, to the witness: would take about half hour. Were any people watching the All the packages were filthy out-steamer that night? I don't know. side. but the opium was quite Mr. Lloyd said the opium in the clean. The two holes could pet case was Macao opium of, Na 1 be seen from the engine room Hoor.
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When asked by the Magistrate if he desired to cross-examine the witness, Me.. Davidson aald he would ke Mr. Lloyd to make a statement as to what he intended to prive and what facts he woold bring before the Court. Until the statement Was made absolutely in the dark.
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Defendants Not Concerned With Smuggling.
Mr. Davidson: I suppose you are prepared to admit that there that Messrs.. no suggestion Jardine. Mathelon are in any way Mr. Lloyd said he would prove that the opium was found in
concerned with the smuggling " place on board in the control of
Mr. Boyd: Certainly not. the crew of the ship. They were
Mr. Davidson: Supposing the on board extremely valuable goods, the value defendants or anyone of which in Hongkong was $7,250.] the ship had found the opium From the position the opium was before the ship sailed and handed found in, it was clear that some it over to your department, would one on board the ship must have this prosecution have been brought? been responsible for allowing it too. be placed there, if they did not ac-
As a matter of fact your Revenue tually put it there themselves. -.
Officers find opium through the The Magistrate (Mr. J. R.
medium of informers -Sometimes Wood): And you are asking for a Various methods are used- penalty under the Ordinance?
An Important Case.
Mr. Davidson: Nearly always
I cannot say. I have been in the department for only a few months. The Magistrale: Informers are used?
Mr. Lloyd: Yes. Mr. Lloyd add ed that he was not asking for as overwhelming "penalty, but just
Yrs. Mr. Lloyd: sufficient to show that all ships
The word must take proper precautions, that "informer" has of course an 2.00- smuggling could not be done with biguous meaning. In certain cases impunity and also that ships of a
we get assistance from persons well-known company would who are not to be classed with dealt with just the same 23 any the common informer. other ships. This was an impor- tant case, especially in view of the Opium Conference, which was being held on the 4th. for which Bishop Brent of Manila was the American) delegate.
Mr. Davidson asked the prosecution Was apply for.
be
what fine going to
Mr. Lloyd: I leave to your Worship to decide the fine.
The Magistrate: $5,000 is the limited penalty?
But you cannot tell me if it is a fact that nearly all those dis coveries are made, through in formers good number have been made through informers
Mr. Davidson: The whole of the defendants' guilt is that not having the assistance of informers they did not find the opium? It neces- sarily follows?
Mr. Lloyd replied that it migh have been due to improper search He did not see how it followed that because the company had n^]
Mr. Davidson said that that amount was increased to ten times the value of the oplam by the informers they had no legal guil Ordinance of 1922. His point was, in the matter. Mr. Lloyd had no means of guiding Mr. Davidson: The difference in the Bench in the matter of penalty, prosecuting and not prosecuting what means his Worship would depends entirely upon the defen- have. It was a question of guils dants failure to find the opium - If there was any suggestion that In this case, as I have said before, the Indo-China Steam Navigation if they had found the opium and Company (owners of the Loong brought it to us the matter would
Sang) was guilty of or a party to the smuggling, then the extent of guilt would guide, his Worship. If, on the other hand, as he would ask Mr. Lloyd to admit, the Company had no knowledge whatever of, and certainly was not a party to the smuggling-they were the victims if anything-then he would sub- [mit.
not have been carried, further,
You are aware that a ship on the same ran as the Loong Sang, Hongkong to Manila, will be ex- tremely busy during the few days she is in port?—Yes.
Some Suggested Precautions. Do you suggest that any precau- ins can be taken which would
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prevent people from putting opium on board? If so, what precautions t -The chief precaution in all these cases, in my opinion, is the general attitude of the officers on board the ship to discourage smuggling. If the Chinese know that the officers would not encourage smuggling then smuggling would not take place. If, on the other hand, the Chinese got into their. the beads, through slackness
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That is the result of your ex- perience of three months -No. 1. have had a few years service during the war.
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'You did not say so when I asked youBut you were asking about informers. I was not connected with informers before.
Your suggestion is that because
found this opium was Loong Sang the officers must have been slack in suppressing smug- gling That is the conclusion to be drawn if you don't wish draw any worse conclusions.
Do you really suggest that an atmosphere of carelessness on the part of the officers would induce the smuggling of opium ?--Yes.
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And an atmosphere of care would stop it-It would not stop per- haps all cases, but it certainly would stop 9 per cent.
Are you aware that the ships of the Company are searched twice, on every voyage -No.
Searches Logged.
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They have printed instructions from the Company to search two separate occasions during each voyage from here to Manila --That bears out my point. The first time a new officer gots on board he may search very strictly, but after a second time the search becomes routine work and later
becomes perfunctory. I am not talking about this particular com- pany, but of other companies on the ships of which this has hap pened time after time.
We are talking about this com- pany. The searches are made and logged in each voyage!
The Magistrate interposed that this could be given in evidence.
[f'ontinued on Poja 3.)
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