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instead of being sold as fonterly, ami consequently
there is now no fusi fran which the detecting
officers can be reperded. In spite of this the Custome
returns show seizures of meagdel optiza. In the Deong-
Der quarter of 1913, for example, mmuggled uncertificated
opiun me meised at eight porte, via; at Lappa, Kowloon,
Canton, and tow in the South; and at Hankow (800 oz),
Wuhu (400 ox), dunking and Chinking in the Yangtae
region: and it is a fair assumption that the quantity
raised beare an infinitesimal ratio to the total
smuggled.
Some light is thrown on the extent of @mugi-
ling of uncertificated opium into China by the parti-
culare furnished by the Governor of Hongkong in his
letter to the Colonial Office of the 3rd of May last-
to which my despatch No 450 of Doomabor 3rd last drew
attention- concerning Kuangchouwan, at which since opium
was being imported to an extant mount tan tiga se much
as loosl requirements: the local consumption in 1912
be int
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