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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1936.
ENOUGH HEROIN TO PRODUCE MORE THAN 25,000,000 DEATH-DEALING PILLS
Enormous Seizures In Colony Last Year "SMOKING IS NOW ENDEMIC
SAYS GOVT. OFFICIAL
Last year a record number of 517,490 prepared heroin pills, and enough heroin to make a further 25,000,000 was seized in Hongkong by officers of the Imports and Exports Department.
This startling figure constitutes a record. In 1931, only 5,000 pilla were seized..
SPITTOON Hongkong Government SWEEPINGS Resumes Well-Known FOR SALE Ice House St. Property
$25 FINE FOR CHINESE WHO SOLD OLD TEA LEAVES AS NEW
$271,439 PAID FOR CORNER SITE
THE "Telegraph" is able to reveal to-day that the property in Ice House Street formerly occupied by the Hongkong Daity Press has been resumed by the Hongkong Government..
The resumption price for the property, which extends from Nos. 11 10 23 Ice House Street, was $271,439.16. The previous owners were the Hongkong Land and Investment Company.
The purpose of the resumption is not specified, but it is bellev- ed that it is in connection with the City Development Scheme out- Ined some time ago.
The Annual Report of the indiscriminate smoking was not the TEA leaves gathered from spittoons in restaurants Superintendent of Imports and rule and oplum divans were still
and eating-houses and re- "The practice has now been re- Sept. 21 Exports, tabled in Legislative easily in the majority.
Council this afternoon, states versed, for opium and heroin are sold to tea-merchants form- amolted indiscriminately and heroin that "the practice of smoking pans which keep an opium pipe ored the subject of summonses heroin pills has now become two are now in the majority.
bltration. taken by the Sanitary De- endemic in Hongkong."
"Divans have increased immensely partment against five shop occupied by the fougkong Telegraph, prior to this newspapery's we "The dimculties in suppressing this new business are immense, in size, and whereas formerly it was keepers, which were heard for one ounce of heroin, which the custom to find foarte and before Mr. Macfadyen at the is easily concealed, can make it is
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29 about 300,000 pls" adds the twelve to fourteen pipes.
"Although divans are sometimes Kowloon Magistracy this
Report.
"Unfortunately, the possession of 14e mujor ingredients of pill, 27 without heroin, is no offence.
"Morcover, although. formerly pills were probably imported Into Hongkong, there has now sprung, up a mushroom growth of heroin face tories, mostly of the small hand type kind with easily transportable apparatus.
"The immense number of empty houses in Hongkong faellitated the Establishment of these places. Norm- ally gang rented a floors for at most three or four days, when the mixture for one consignment of herola pills was prepared, and at the last minute enoughi heroin wha brought in to produce the finished product.
OUTSIDE THE LAW
"The pills were then dried on the premises and immediately despatched to distributing centres. The ap- paratus was then packed up and the
gant move on.
per
furnished with European beds, the morning. old-style bed-board is still as popular
as
ever. The clientele, however,
Defendants were Chan Yan, with the increasing popularity of heroin, has become less select, and of No. 265 Laichikok Road, manufaclorers sometimes Impose on lower class divans by selling pills ground, floor; Tam Kee, of No. which often contain no herein at all. 215 Temple Street, ground floor; Ch. Sing, of No. 236 Shanghai ground floor; Chiu
WOMEN ADDICTS
"It is noticeable, moreover, at there is always a fair sprinking Street,
Purchase was attempted by the Government by private trealy, but falled. The matter was subsequenfly submitted to Ar-
It is interesting to note that at one time this property was
movil, to the present premises in Wyndham Street.
In addition to the Hongkong Dally Press, which has now re- moved to Marina House, the occupants of the property include Mec Cheung, photographers, and the B.B.C. Lamp Shop.
Government Opium'
1935 Drug
Sales Lowest
In Colony's History
II/WAT was once the Hongkong Government's principal source of of women among the smokers." Kwong-sang, of No. 150 Shang-nue has now become a liability. Statistics contained the Annual Report show that, during 1035, the hai Street, ground floor; and Departmental officers scized 80 ounces Lam Tsin, of No, 613 Shanghai of heroin, capable of producing more than 25,000,000 plis, in addition to Street, ground floor. the 517,490 prepared pills.
made on the J.C.J.L. liner Tjisaroca,
Altogether, 173 seizures took place, The summons against each of 170 of which were in respect to the them alleged that they had sold to 517,400 prepared pills.
the purchaser, Sanitary Inspector The maler seizure of heroin was J. M. Boyd, on July 15, ten not of This heroin, however, was not in the nature, substance or quality tended for Hongkong, and was pro-demanded. bably shipped from Shanghai to Java.
Causal seizes
included two bottles bearing Japanese labels, and it is possible that some of the local heroin was smugled from Japon by boats calling at Hongkong.
TROTSKY INDIGNANT
Osto, Aug. 25.
حمد
According to the Annual Report of the Superintendent of Im- ports and Exports, tabled in Legislative Council this afternoon, the total amount of prepared opium sold in Government opium shops amounted only to 17,293 tacls. This is the lowest sale on record. Ten years ago the revenue from; formation, or it may be that the the sale of opium was $5,224,303. By smuggling and smoking of opium is last year it had dropped to $369,462, on the decline. a fifteen-fold decrease in a decade,
"The average price of let pre- and little more than half the revenue
pared opium in Hongkong verled Of the $300,402 derived from the during 1935 between $2.50 and $3 sale of oplum fast year, $170,000 was per tack." received for the sale of Kam Shan It was stated by the prosecution Oplum, which is reserved for special- ' that the cases were the results of ly registered smokers less than .one an inspector and interpreter taking hundred in number. samples. The tea leaves liad been gathered
from
In spittoons
after being dried on the roof-tons,
Defendants all claimed to have bought the tea from other firms, and to have resold it.
derived in 1834.
GOVERNMENT'S BIG LOSS
OPIUM SHOPS
The sale of Government opium continued to be restricted to the Head Office, six Government Shops, and 21 salaried retailers in outlying
restaurants and eating-houses, and "Such a scrlous decline in re-districts,
venue," says the Superintendent of! had been resold to tea-merchants. Impurts and Exports, means that
In consonance with recommenda-
"It was thus cusy to keep outside the law, for information was usually received too late. The master of the factory never resided on premises and only occasionally visited them so that when arrests were made poor dupes, earning a few dollars month, alone were found.
"The menace of heroin is not "One of the #realest crimea in
His Worship told defendants that the Hongkong Government is now tions of the League of Nations it was confined to Hongkong. China has history," was M. Leon Trotsky's it was a very dangerous practice to subsidising opium preventure work decided towards the end of the year found oplum supplanted by the comment on the execution of sixteen buy tea-leaves which had been to the extent of nearly $400,000 per to abolish 13 retailers within new trade to such an extent that persons charged with plaiting with taken from spittoons and that the annum. drastic penalties have been im him for, the overthrow of the Soviet posed acninst smugglers and regime yesterday: and the former maximum penalty for a first offence denlers.
revolutionary added, "It is my duty was a fine of $500 and for any sub- "Last year's Report stated that to unmask Il."—Reuter.
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