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married, native of Tun Yu, China, stated that he had
loaded his cargo in the open sea from a junk, the master
of which, he said, was named Chan Yong; he did not know
the names of any members of the crew.
He added that the cargo was consigned to a person
named Kwok Seng, in the Chinese village of Ho Han.
It was almost impossible to ascertain the name of the
vessel from which the confiscated opium had been transferred
to the junk.
The master of the lorcha was arrested and, in
accordance with the legislation in force, was sentenced to
a fine equivalent to two escudos a day for 720 days, or
1440 escudos in all, payable in the local currency
(3200 patacas).
On payment of the fine the prisoner was released.
The confiscated opium became Government property.
II.
On October 21st, 1929, the Inspectors of Customs
and Excise at Macao seized six parcels of raw Persian
opium, each weighing one pound, on board a boat plying
between the city of Macao and the islands of Taipa and
Coloane. These parcels were found in a chest on board
the boat; the master said that they must have been put
there by passengers whom he had landed from a ship
anchored outside the roadstead.
It was ascertained that they had actually been
placed there by a Chinaman when the harbour police launch
ordered the boat to stop.
This Chinaman, Chan Hong, son of Chan Wo and Chan
Lei Si, aged 35, native of Canton, employed on board a
Japanese vessel then at anchor outside the harbour,
admitted that the parcels of opium were his own property,
having been gived to him by a friend in the port of
Bushire, whence the vessel had recently returned.
The
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