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Para. 13.
The decrease in the Government
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sales of opium is due to the cheapness of raw
Chinese opium, and never before has opium
smoking been so widespread.
Para. 21. Attention was devoted to the
question of the smuggling of opium to Malaya
by Japanese motor schooners.
Para. 23 gives an account of a concentrated
drive against divans, which extended over a
period of 6 months.
Para. 26. The keeping of divans is far
more prevalent than previously, and the falling
off in the sales of Government opium is not due
to any decrease in the number of smokers. Matudo
The cheapness of Chinese opium resulted
~crease
thes
number of
Smokers.
in
Paras. 28 to 31 contain evidence of opium
smuggling on a large scale.
Para. 40. The flaw discovered in the
legislation designed to throw responsibility
on the tenants of a floor or building who put Knowingly
y permitted any portion of their premises
to which reference is made in this paragraph) to be used as an opium divan, has been remedied
by Ordinance 7 of 1934 (33800/6/34).
STATISTICS.
Para. 42. As a result of the embargoes on
the free export of gold imposed by China and
Japan, large quantities of the metal were
smuggled into Hong Kong for shipment to the
U.K. and U.S.A.
20-cent pieces were smuggled out of
South China for shipment to North China,
for
where the silver was extracted tua profit.
Para. 45. A comparison of the volume
in and