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Fonclosure 3.
Een. C.S.
403
Returns of Raw and Prepared opium seized in
1917 submitted. It will be observed that the seizures of
Raw opium are almost negligible but it must not be assumed
that this reduction in any way represents the true condition
of the traffic in 1112bit raw opium from India to China.
It is known to me &A an infierutable fast
trat nearly $500,000 worth of raw opium was taken on board
the "Sun Tak", chartered by Mitsui Bussan Kaisha for Tata
pig iron from Calcutta to Hongkong and deliberately canno
round the Colony and landed at Chilen Point, rear swato7.
This was at the end of last year. I advised Mr. Harris but
the ship managed to evade the Chinese Maritime Customs. Tre
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha wewe not implicated.
(sa.) D. W. Tratman,
Superintendent, Imports &
Exporte.
5.2.18.