CO129-555-17 Smuggling of counterfeit coins made in China 5-12-1935 - 19-2-1936 — Page 24

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"offender according to the law relating to summary

"conviction."

The Netherlands Indian Government suggest that the

penalities provided for in the above clause are hardly

adequate and are not a deterrent for Chinese in view of the gains derived from dealing in false coin and in view also of the dif-

ficulty of detection owing to the number of native craft plying between Chinese ports and Hong Kong as well as the frequent and various shipping opportunities from Hong Kong

to the South.

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It is no doubt this difficulty which accounts as

reported by the Netherland Consul General at Hong Kong, for

only five counterfeit foreign coin cases having been brought

into Court in that Colony during the last ten years.

The Netherlands Indian Penal Code prescribes much heavier penalties for knowingly possessing or having in custody counterfeit coin and the appropriate Authority in Netherlands India are of opinion that if it were known that this offence would be more severely punishable at Hong Kong

than at present, the importation of such coin into the

Archipelago would substantially decrease.

I beg you to be good enough to submit the above to

the consideration of the competent Department of His Majesty's Government and to favour me with a reply in course of time.

I have, etc.,

(Sgd) R. de Marees van Swinderen.