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37. The commonest pill found was the brand called "Fierce Tiger," the latest label, adopted in August last, being in colours showing a large tiger with one paw on a rock with a small bird in flight above. According to enquiries made, the factory is situated in Chinese territory, and the pills in bags of one thousand each could readily be purchased in Shanghai. They claim to be made by a firm calling itself the "Lung Ma foreign firm." This brand contains the most heroin, and is always of a deep pink and is the best-made pill of the kind encountered. Seizures were made on ships coming from Shanghai, and in the possession of persons either natives of or coming recently from Shanghai. In one case, a Shanghai pill dealer was arrested in an opium and heroin pill divan with a packet of pills in every pocket; he was on his rounds of the divans to sell them their day's supply.
A certain number of pills come from Kongmoon; these cannot be mistaken for the Tiger brand, being of a light pink shade. A certain number come from Canton, whence came also some of the pill-making material seized.
VI. DANGEROUS DRUGS.
38. Only one seizure of importance was made—that of four pounds of morphia which was seized en route to Manila together with Red Lion prepared opium. The different weights were written in Chinese on the packages. One small package was rather crude discoloured morphia, and the majority had been mixed with caffeine, while a loose label was found enclosed giving a long description in Chinese of its efficacy as a cough medicine. After careful analysis, the analyst pronounced that the morphia itself was not very pure originally before its admixture with caffeine, and was of the type to be expected from any factory working in rather a crude way.
VII. OPIUM SHOPS.
39. The number of Government shops for the retailing of opium remained at 6, while the number of salaried retailers using their own premises was further reduced to 24, all in the outlying portions of the urban area or in the country districts. By far the greater proportion of the opium sold was retailed through the Government shops, very little being sold in the outlying districts.
VIII. LEGISLATION.
40. An attempt was made by legislation to throw responsibility on the tenants of a floor or building who knowingly permitted any portion of their premises to be used as an opium divan by their sub-tenants. Several convictions were obtained until one magistrate held that as the person generally known as the "Principal Tenant" had parted with the control of the cubicle, bed-space, or cock-loft by the fact that he sub-let, he