CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 468

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should enforce its tax of $2.50 per picul at the souT

production within its own territory.

Meanwhile

Apart from the possibility of their attracting sal t-usi

trades away from Hongkong, Macao and Ewong Chau Van are

almost certain to defeat any measures which Hongkong may

take for the protection of China. It is so with opium.

Hongkong makes strenuous efforts to prevent any opium, even

her own "Government" opium from reaching Chi na.

the Hasao Farmer openly boils large quantities of opium

"for export" to destinations not stated, but none the less

obvious and Kwong Chau War sells several hundred chests of

raw opium annually to a population which probably does not

smoke a chest a mon th. Kwong Chau Van appears to produce

considerable quanti ties of salt and Macao can drawn from

her as indicated in the preceding paragraph from China.

For the credit of British administration Hongkong will, of

course be bound to administer tha sal t-law wholeheartedly

once it is passed. China, on the other will showw no such

zeal. The Gaballe will no doubt do its utmost, but other

Chinese departments will not. A few months ago a prominent

opium-monger was able to defeat our precautions and those of

the Chinese Mari time Customs by procuring gunboats belong-

ing to some Chinese department to carry raw opium to Canton,

It will be the same with salt. It is in fact notorious tha"

Chinese official craft are constantly szuggling sal t. A

memorandus on salt-smuggling inthe Konguun District, fore

warded to His Excellency the Governor by Sir Richard Dane w

under the date 28th April, 1915, contains the following sta

ment by the Tidesurveyor at Kongmund-

"Events and personal observati on have proved to me that

"the extensive sal t-smuggling carried on in this distric

"is aided and abetted by the Sal t-Commi asi oner's own

"preventive launches, the Salt Merchants and the Govern-

"ment gunboats guarding the West River Delta. "

A fresh instance of this insincerity occurred only a few

months ago when a salt junk from Hongkong was met in Deep

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