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especially the popular Yunnan product, by dealers working from Hongkong. Kongmoon and Canton are now drawing their supplies direct, while the excellent promise of the opium crop in the Foochow district renders it improbable that the markets of Swatow, Amoy and Shanghai will need to draw on Hongkong during the latter part of 1924.
Among the documents examined were found many references to the great demand there was in Shanghai for Indian and Persian Opium. This demand was met partly by direct shipments from the Persian Gulf nominally consigned to places such as Vladivostock and Dalny. Dalny with a small number of Chinese and a smaller number of registered smokers seems to have taken large quantities of Persian Opium during the year. The Government at Vladivostock also seem to have given certificates freely for the import of Persian Opium. Information from various sources was to the effect that much of the Persian Opium consigned to these places was in fact put off into Chinese gunboats near the mouth of the Yangtsze. Large quantities of Turkish Opium were noticed on Japanese ships en route from Marseilles to Japan.
The places from which most of the raw opium seized came were Haiphong, Pakhoi, Hoihow and Kwong-chow-wan. Kong-moon supplied a regular stream of prepared opium in 1 tael brass tins so shaped as to fit a matchbox or small cigarette carton. Owing to the failure of the opium crop in the Fuhkien Province, due to drought, Amoy was a buyer and not a seller during the year. Macao continued to be the chief source from which the markets of Manila and the United States were supplied. Demand from the Philippines and America continued strong throughout the year.
The illicit opium used in Opium Divans was mostly composed of Chinese Raw Opium boiled in the Colony, in many cases on the premises of the Divan keeper. Divan keepers are supplied daily with small quantities of illicit prepared or raw opium, generally not more than half a tael of prepared and up to 6 taels of raw opium at one time. Regular dealers send women and children to deliver the daily supply to the various divans. Many of the divans are managed by paid keepers, one man owning several places while the real owner keeps in the background and is rarely caught. After a certain time a valuable goodwill attaches to a floor or cubicle which has become a popular divan, and though the divan has been raided and the keeper convicted and his opium smoking gear confiscated it is not very long before the same place is in full operation again under a new keeper. In some instances the tenant of the floor charges a regular fee each night for allowing one of the cubicles to be used as a divan, so that one man may run it for a few days and then someone else. In one case the same floor was found to be used as a divan no fewer than five times, the keeper was convicted each time and in some cases went to prison, but the only thing which finally put an end to the use of this place as a divan...
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especially the popular Yunnan product, by dealers working from Hongkong. Kongmoon and Canton are now drawing their supplies direct, while the excellent promise of the opium crop in the Foochow district renders it improbable that the markets of Swatow, Amoy and Shanghai will need to draw on Hongkong during the latter part of 1924.
Among the documents examined were found many references to the great demand there was in Shanghai for Indian and Persian Opium. This demand was met partly by direct shipments from the Persian Gulf nominally consigned to places such as Vladivostock and Dalny. Dalny with a small number of Chinese and a smaller number of registered smokers seems to have taken large quantities of Persian Opium during the year. The Government at Vladivostock also seem to have given certificates freely for the import of Persian Opium. Information from various sources was to the effect that much of the Persian Opium consigned to these places was in fact put off into Chinese gunboats near the mouth of the Yangtsze. Large quantities of Turkish Opium were noticed on Japanese ships en route from Marseilles to Japan.
The places from which most of the raw opium seized came were Haiphong, Pakhoi, Hoihow and Kwong-chow-wan. Kong- moon supplied a regular stream of prepared opium in 1 tael brass tins so shaped as to fit a matchbox or small cigarette carton. Owing to the failure of the opium crop in the Fuhkien Province, due to drought, Amoy was a buyer and not a seller during the year. Macao continued to be the chief source from which the markets of Manila and the United States were supplied. Demand from the Philippines and America continued strong throughout the year.
The illicit opium used in Opium Divans was mostly composed of Chinese Raw Opium boiled in the Colony, in many cases on the premises of the Divau keeper. Divan keepers are supplied daily with small quantities of illicit prepared or raw opium, generally not more than half a tael of prepared and up to 6 taels of raw opium at one time. Regular dealers send women and children to deliver the daily supply to the various divans. Many of the divans are managed by paid keepers, one man owning several places while the real owner keeps in the background and is rarely caught. After a certain time a valuable goodwill attaches to a floor cr cubicle which has become a popular divan, and though the divan has been raided and the keeper convicted and his opium smoking gear confiscated it is not very long before the same place is in full operation again under a new keeper. In some instances the tenant of the floor charges a regular fee each night for allowing one of the cubicles to be used as a divan, so that one man may run it for a few days and then someone else. In one case the same floor was found to be used as a divan no fewer than five times, the keeper was convicted each time and in some cases went to prison, but the only thing which finally put an end to the use of this place as a
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