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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929.

OPIUM ON YANGTSZE. THE COAL INDUSTRY,

IMPOSSIBLE TO SUPPRESS TRAFFIC.

The seizure of a large quantity of{ opium on the 8. Kongwa ni Kiuklang on July 6, and the subsequent trouble and others among those that seized it who wanted to be "In the swim," is more symptomatic than startling, us it only serves to illustrate and to bring to public nolice a state of affairs that has been going on for n time, saya

QUESTIONS OF HOURS, WAGES & NATIONALISATION.

London, July 22.

A. HARBOUR CRIME.

REWARD OF $500 OFFERED BY THE POLICE.

A reward of $500 is being offer A reduction in working hours ed by the police for Information and negotiation of a national leading to the arrest of the author the outstanding of the murder which occurred at agreement are lagues of the Miners' Federation the beginning of this month when conference at Blackpool.

a santpan woman, named Ko Ng,

Mr. Herbert Smith in a presi- and her 18-year-old son, were kill-

As with the Ping and Engineering, dential address urged the nationali-led in their craft and their bodies

seizure on the Kinngön

a the present year.

and

sation of mines, minerals and by-thrown overboard in Victoria Har- It will be recalled that the The past year was corpses of the two victims wero the worst on record regarding some days later recovered from comparative wages, short the water by the police, In- time, and he was of opinion thatvestigations then carried out re- the time had come to approach the vealing robbery as the motive for conl-owners with a view to the the crime. conclusion of a national agreement.--Reuter.

will ent November, the Kungwo seizure products, and confidently antici-bour

bring of righteous (1) indignation in Chinese circles, with the anni plethora of re quests that the hateful traffic be put

end to ПП to forthwith. But that is all humbug and hymerisy; and everyone ennnected with shipping on the knows it. Doubtless capital will be made of the fact that the seizure

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all

for the Chinese are too astute to let another opportunity of having dig" at the foreigner such na the

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uffers.

In commenting on the Kiangan ear, we said that we do

wages

their wile and their knowledge and their experience against anything the officers can do to prevent it; and with officials high and low, military and

In a G.1.D. circular just issued, adelalled list is given of the pieces of jewellery known to have been stolen, and which amount in value to nearly $500. Mention is also made of the fact that a quantity of sovereigns and half- perty atolon,

affair last veinte in the least civil, often concerned in shipments or sovereigns is Included in the pro-

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what all the other in about .. We know that the sule and transporta- tion of opium constitutes illicit insingas, and that the villains who are aught doing it are fiable to all sorts and condition of

penalties penalties which occasionally, wre

But the the whate

but a mass

busily, very

induced to facilitate shipments in the many ways they are able; to attempt wholly to suppress the traffic in a hopeless task. There are, of course, for exceptions, but the propensity and

of drugs by muggling for Chinese constitutes a trait which centuries would not cradiente; and let the

of cant and hypocrisy, insincerity and pping companies and the

of

and the officers of the ships bluff, out of the welter of which do everything they possibly can, as emerges the fact, undeniable and in-andoabledly they do, the smuggling controvertible, that the business will go on just the same. dealing in opium in China, the rules Cage of Chinese Vier-Consul's Wife. and regulations bye-Inwa against

Dustrative of the extremes to it notwiths

Rões on at pro

which people will go in order to st, as it has gone on for years, on

smuggle the drug is the seizure by with the knowledge in the Customs authorities at San

of the

Francisco of a big quantity, of opium very authoritica are supposed to suppress it, and (and other contraband goods) which in not a few instances with their very were found in the personal baggage condonation and connivance."

of the wife

at the Chinese Those remarks are as

as true to-day Consul to the Port. Diplomatic im

had been claimed for and ns when they were written, and tha

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or instances which become to that baggage; and while

knowledge, as in

as in the case of the Kungwo, give no real indication of the extent of the traille. The ship ping companies, and the officers of their ships, da ail in their power to stop it, hut with so many means of getting the stuff on board ship and off again, with the Chiorse of the vessel in tmost cases pitting

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or in taken

taken, by Chinese, on behalf of other to smuggle into America Chinese, drugs and other contraband items it is stated, more than valued at, G.$500,000.

It has been a fact acknowledged for seized by the authorities amounts in that the total amount of opium the aggregate to only an infinitesimal part of the aggregate that evades the eyes of the

Authorities no official cognisance of by them; and this is particularly go on the Yang- tste. Frankly, there is no remedy for and civil the evil. If the military officials of the country were quite above suspicion, there might be chance of its being reduced to some extent seriously of the suppression extent; but with things us they are, of the opium scantal is to utter rub- bish, L

be cannot

and the Jone, Chltese know it; and Ict shipping companies do what they will, and the masters and officers of their ships take every reasonable precaution, oplum is going to he smuggled na nd when the Enugglers think it, so lung as graft and squeeze and bribery and extortion continue to play the major part in the matter, which they

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