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Enclosure 2.
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
re Heroin case S.S. "Anger="
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The defendant in the case was sentenced to 5 years
imprisonment by the Chief Justice at the Sessions.
2. The only point of interest which has been discover-
ed is that the defendant lived for a year in Shanghai at 67
Ming Hong Road, and that he stated when applying for his passport in Shanghai that he was going to France to study the woollen trade on behalf of his father in Tokyo, who was in this trade, and that he had represented his father's business in Shanghai. He stated in the witness box that he had spent a few days in Hong Kong in April this year, on his way back to Shanghai and Jepan from Swatow. It was noticed at the trial that a friend of his was giving instructions for the defence, this man had cone specially from Shanghai, and appeared to be a Japanese in a good position, he was wearing an expensive diamond ring, and was well dressed.
3.
The defence was that a Japanese friend called Ito
in Paris introduced him to a Chinese merchant called Mo or Mah, and that finally after being taken to Switzerland by the Chinese by air, he consented to take back to Shanghai the trunks in which the drug was found, which were said to contain watches. It is impossible to say if there is any
truth in these statements, part of what he stated in his defence was undoubtedly falsehood. He did go to Zurich with a Japanese, but he was called Nagasawa. He admitted that the trunks were destined for Shanghai. My informant said that these formed part of about 2,000 kilos which had been successfully introduced into Shanghai, and that a large manufacturer of drugs was behind the deals. I hope to get
further information from the same source.
(Sd.) J. D. Lloyd,
Superintendent of Imports & Exports
4th October, 1926.