CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 635

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Extract of letters from 'esars, Butterfield and Swire

Shanghai, dat d 23rd and 24th September 1915 to Mesars. Alfred Holt and Company.

unita Squadin aliena" on this vessel's retum from Hankow Captain Willisson informed us he had dis- covered 680 lbs. Opium concealed in the no. 3 Hold. The No. 1 Firemen having been arrested came up for trial yesterday at the ixed Court on a charge of attempting to smuggle upium into China, and being found guilty wɛɛ sentenced to imprisonment for three mʊntha. Die angazed counsel to prosecute, Je are very pleased the man van convicted, the effect of which as trust will be to put &

..o decision bas stop to further attempts at smuggling. yet been given in the "Ping Suey* case in whics the › Customs are prosecuting.

le molose herewith the Mastar's report which

for itself.

You will have learnt from our General letter discovery of upius on board the "Atreus" and it is extremely satisfvctory in their instance that Captain ;illigmuan took steps to secure the No. 1 Fireman who in every other case has been allowed to slip away.

„Under the circumstɩnoes the Customs Authorities sould not proceed against tua dan but we took it upon ournelbṣs te do so and instructed our Lawyer to press for * heavy sentence, The sentence, we re¿tet, is far too light but we are klad to say that it has given great satisfection to the Commissioner of Customs.

It is some what remarkable that the Chinese Customs and the Chinese Courts take very different våers

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