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ployees of the Railway were taking an active part until special measures were taken to combat it. Such cases have been comparatively rare of late.
29. Smugglers of raw opium often worked in gangs, in one case four women met a steamer from Canton in a sampan in the early morning, placed the opium under their clothes and were arrested as they were driving off in a motor car after landing at Murray Pier. In another case three women stepped off a train and went up to a female searcher apparently expecting to be let through; unfortunately for them another searcher was on duty and discovered each of them to be well padded with raw opium. In another case four students came down from Canton each carrying a small rattan basket, the sole contents of all being raw opium, one of them was found in addition to have his topee stuffed with opium.
30. Special mention must be made of the seizure of 13,770 taels of raw opium on a steam barge from Wuchow, as she was entering Kapshuimun Pass. The opium was found laid out on deck in gunny bags, the bags being tied to a long rope, to which was fixed at intervals heavy pieces of iron; the opium being packed in sealed tins would not have suffered by being thrown over-board at some point, which was obviously the intention. Convictions were obtained against those in charge of the barge.
31. Dumping at sea seemed to have been adopted as the usual routine and in two cases the sampan was actually caught in the act of picking it up, but according to information received dumping was also conducted well away from the harbour and especially near the Adamastor rock near Cheung Chow, and near Deep Bay. It was reported that certain steamers carrying opium destined for the Colony discharged into junks well outside British waters, these again discharged small portions at a time into small fishing boats, who brought it nearer, and finally sampans took delivery and ran it ashore. A large number of the outside tins in which the one tael tins of Red Lion were generally found packed bore strong evidence of having been immersed in salt water, doubtless having been retrieved from the sea-bed.
V. HEROIN PILLS.
32. The campaign against divans led to the discovery of an unusual number of heroin pills. These pills called "Red Pills" in Chinese were found being smoked in opium divans, and occasionally in special divans devoted to these pills only. The price at which they were sold in opium divans was six pills of superior quality or eight pills of inferior quality for ten cents. Smokers were of the opinion that ten cents worth of pills was better value than ten cents worth of opium as sold
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ployees of the Railway were taking an active part until special measures were taken to combat it. Such cases have been com- paratively rare of late.
29. Smugglers of raw opium often worked in gangs, in one case four women met a steamer from Canton in a sampan in the early morning, placed the opium under their clothes and were arrested as they were driving off in a motor car after land- ing at Murray Pier. In another case three women stepped off a train and went up to a female searcher apparently expecting to be let through; unfortunately for them another searcher was on duty and discovered each of them to be well padded with raw opium. In another case four students came down from Canton each carrying a small rattan basket, the sole contents of all being raw opium, one of them was found in addition to have his topee stuffed with opium.
30. Special mention must be made of the seizure of 13,770- taels of raw opium on a steam barge from Wuchow, as she was entering Kapshuimun Pass. The opium was found laid out. on deck in gunny bags, the bags being tied to a long rope, to which was fixed at intervals heavy pieces of iron; the opium being packed in sealed tins would not have suffered by being thrown over-board at some point, which was obviously the in- tention. Convictions were obtained against those in charge of the barge.
31. Dumping at sea seemed to have been adopted as the usual routine and in two cases the sampan was actually caught in the act of picking it up, but according to information re- ceived dumping was also conducted well away from the harbour and especially near the Adamastor rock near Cheung Chow, and near Deep Bay. It was reported that certain steamers carrying opium destined for the Colony discharged into junks well outside British waters, these again discharged small portions at a time) into small fishing boats, who brought it nearer, and finally sampans took delivery and ran it ashore. A large number of the outside tins in which the one tael tins of Red Lion were generally found packed bore strong evidence of having been immersed in salt water, doubtless having been retrieved from the sea-bed,
V. HEROIN PILLS.
32. The campaign against divans led to the discovery of an unusual number of heroin pills. These pills called "Red Pills "in Chinese were found being smoked in opium divans, and occasionally in special divans devoted to these pills only. The price at which they were sold in opium divans was six pills of superior quality or eight pills of inferior quality for ten cents. Smokers were of the opinion that ten cents worth of pills was better value than ten cents worth of opium as sold
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