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of the members and assessors.
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Geneva, September 29th, 1927.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER
DANGEROUS DRUGS,
Note by the Secretary.
The. Secretary has the honour to circulate to the members of the Committee the attached document which she thinks
will be of interest to then.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTLNDENT OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR
1926 ON OPIUM SMUGGLING IN HONGKONG.
PERSIAN
OPIUM
Few seizures were made of Persian Opium, raw Persian
Opium not being in favour here, so much so that it was found useless to place any prepared Persian Opium on sale and the sale
was therefore discontinued.
One seizure was of some interest.
A greek seaman
was arrested, who had bought 8 pounds of Persian raw opium in the Bund in Shanghai for gold $125, the destination of his ship wes U.S.A., but it is improbable that he could have sold it there, as he had been on the run some time and probably thought he could dispose of it here at a profit. The outside wrappings of the cakes wore stamped with the names of one firm at Tai Chow and another at Shanghai. From the appearance of the usual red wrapping paper, the opium was fresh, and could not have been landed very long, as the brightness of the red paper very soon dulls with keeping. It was probably part of that imported into Shanghai by the S/S PHILADELPHIA, as mentioned below.