CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933 — Page 75

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board, then surely we can only infer that the enter end officers in question had not prevented the shipment of contrabend ma they should have done according to orders

given.

I may add that in Fovember, 1981, a penalty, similar in amount to that imposed upon Kesars Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited in this case, was inflicted on the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company for a

precisely similar offence, although in this latter case the

amount of Osium dincovered wag only one-eighth of the a- mount found on the a.8. "Tingsany”. I aite this to show

that if anything, in the eyes of the Chinese, we have acted with undue leniency in the onse of the s.s. "Tingsang"

Yours sincerely,

(STORED) P.7. MAZR.