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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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