CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 569

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view that a policy of total prohibition

would meet with no success whatever.

Smuggling has not, as yet, developed

ints anything like the problem which it presents in Hong Kong, but the

Governor is convinced that if 111-

sonsidered restrictions are placed en

the sale of Covésment opium before

the time is ripe, it would be

absolutely bayend the competence of

the authorities to prevent the entry

which

of opium/(in the absence of any publie opinion adverse to the practice of opium smoking) would inevitably

be smuggled from Chân,

The Malayin

Committee have painted out the

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remarkable facilities for smuggling presented by the 1230 miles of coast There are innumerable erecks

running far inland and connecting with little knew rivers and country roads and so to the main trunk roads and

railways; hundreds of sparsely inhabited jungle islands and secres rivers navigable for timber-laden Junks and native eraft, in any of which dentrabwand can be concealed

with little fear of detection.

The same reasons formot

undertaking to adopt a policy of tot prohibition at some definite future date apply with the same force te

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