Place.
Table XIV.
Seizures of Dangerous Drugs during the year 1927.
Substance
amount.
Origin.
Destination.
S.S. Atsuta Maru
Heroin Hydrochloride 560 ounces
Switzerland
Shanghai
Chiu On Wharf and 2, Tsung
Hing Lane
39,700 Heroin Pills
Unknown
113, Jervois Street
56 Heroin Pills
Unknown
Remarks.
Concealed in false back of a Wardrobe Trunk. One man and one woman convicted. Woman had accompanied trunk from Marseilles and man had come to Hong Kong from Shanghai to arrange for landing the drug in that port.
A possession case. 9,000 found in a house in Hong Kong and 30,700 were being landed. from an unknown steamer. One woman convicted.
A possession case. Believed to be a sample of a large consignment. One man con- victed.
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