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HONGKONG. 4th October, 1924.
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CD.
gir,
With reference to your telegram of August
HD 34775 26th, 1924, on the subject of the alleged smuggling of opium
losures 12
from Kwong Chow Wan to Hongkong, I have the honour to forward for your information the enclosed copies of reports by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports on the contents of certain documents found by him on the premises occupied by
persons engaged in the illicit trade in opium, together with
three samples of opium tins originating in Kwong Chow Wan,
2.
These documents seem to prove conclusively
that a considerable trade in Indian opium does exist having
its headquarters in Kwong Chow Wan and the neighbourhood. They indicate further that this opium, described as Government opium is procurable in chests at a price varying from $6,300 to 88,300 per chest and that the best market for the sale of the prepared product is at Shanghai.
3.
On enquiry from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Saigon I learned that the strict control over the retail trade in Indian opium provided for in the regulations in force in other districts of French Indo-Ching does not exist in Kwong Chow Wan. The opium destined for that region is purchased by the chest in Tonkin by certain approved farmers and by them taken to Kwong Chow Van to be conswed there. The export of the opium to other places is
forbidden
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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J. H. THOMAS, M.P.,
&c.,
&C..
&c.
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