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Enclosure No. 5 in Swatow No. 27 of June 29th, 1927.
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Swatow,
to
H. M. Consul.
71
Swatow, 17th June, 1927.
Sir,
With reference to your letter (of the 11th instant) re-
questing that the draft for $1,000 on the Chi Ch'eng Cash
Shop, given by Low Peng Kiah to the Opium Suppression Bureau,
might be cancelled, I have the honour to inform you that I
wrote to the Bureau requesting that the draft might be sent
to me in order that I might forward it on for cancellation.
The Opium Suppression Bureau now replies as follows:-
"At 4.0 p.m. on the 10th instant, it was reported to this
Bureau that illicit smoking of opium was going on at No. 4,
Jung Lung Street. The Bureau's deputy, Mai Hung-fei, with
two detectives, Wang Piao and Hsing Jung, accompanied by
police, were accordingly sent to investigate.
"On their return, they reported that at No.4, Jung Lung
Street, the house of Low Peng Kiah, they had discovered and
impounded a box of illicit opium and a set of smoking utensils.
These they brought to the Bureau, together with the person
concerned, Low Peng Kiah.
"The offender was at once examined. He stated that he
was a Chao An man and was manager of the Jung Fu Yuan firm.
He admitted that he was aware that in smoking opium he was
guilty of an offence and he begged that he might be let off
with a light fine.
"The opium and smoking utensils were duly destroyed and
he was sentenced to pay the very light fine of $1,000. This
sentence he accepted very willingly and the case was closed.
"A report on the case and on the fine imposed has been
submitted/
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