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a fair assumption that the quantity seized bears an

infinitesimal ratio to the total smuggled.

Some light is thrown on the extent of smuggling

of uncertificated opium into China by the particulars

furnished by the Governor of Hongkong. in his

letter to the Colonial Office of the 3rd of May last

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to which my despatch No. 450 of December 3rd last drew

concerning Kuangchouwan, at which place

attention

opium was being imported to an amount ten times as

much as local requirements: the local consumption in

1912 being 56 chests, while no less than 570 chests

of Indian opium were imported.

In Macao

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where smuggling of opium brought

about the Anglo-Portuguese agreement of June last

smuggling into China is apparently as extensive and

as lucrative as ever before: for, although the amount

of opium permitted under the Agreement to be imported

into Macao is now restricted to 500 chests per annum,

the price paid by the opium farmer to the Macao Gov-

ernment has become, since the Agreement, seven times

as great as before. Up to July 1913, the annual price

paid by the Macao opium farmer was $148.750; while the

annual farm commencing on August 1st, 1913, was sold

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