CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12] — Page 157

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chief means of conveyance are the steam-

ere mentioned in paragraph 2. But a considerable amount has been conveyed by the French subsidised stemmer Hano i an inclusive rate of $75 per ease of 800 tsels, an rhitant rate from Haiphong to this pert, showing that these the accepted the cargo knew the nature of the goods. Sometimes the opium is shipped as ordinary cargo, sometimes

ship's eœmpradore. At one time a junk me employed

regular trips between Kwongchamwan and Hongkong carrying 20,000 er 30,000 teels a trip. Mention is made of customary terms of the trade for freight, apparently 12 sents per inel weight, Ne mention is made of the means by which the opim ms safely landed in the Colony, but the mmerous items found in the Petty Cash Book for he hire of meter launches, and the fact that the syndicate were closely connected with owners of steam launches, points clearly to the method adopted. The seemer stops outside the Harbour, generally at night, between Green Island Lama Cheung Chow

and lantae, the launch then emmes up and takes the opium off, in some cases the opium, mick is packed in sealed kerosene tins 32 lbs in each is lowered into the mter, while the ship is under way, but not before the miting launch or sampan has been identified by sme means, kerosene tins containing this quantity of opium will just flest practically submerged, and can be picked up by the miting boat, The launch then

mits its opportunity to enter the harbour and probably goes

other side of the harbour where Revenue Officers are

for and the configuration of the water frent renders it impossible to patrol the water front. There the goods are

landed inte samo mrekeuse, mpacked weighed, classified and repacked, Though steps here often been taken te intercept

these ships, it is rarely that they have bem caught, they

have too slaberaže a system of signals, and all the sempen

people are in league with them, some of the members of the syndicate belonging to the boat population. They run to

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