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Summary Illicit Transactions and Seizures [Distributed to the Council and Official No. : C. 279. M. 130. 1931. XI. the Members of the League.] [O.C.294 (g).] Geneva, April 1st, 1931. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS SUMMARY OF ILLICIT TRANSACTIONS AND SEIZURES REPORTED TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BETWEEN OCTOBER 9th, 1930, AND MARCH 31st, 1931. PART I. GASES IN REGARD TO WHICH FURTHER INFORMATION HAS REEN RECEIVED (Arranged in order of O.C. document number). No. 1.—Shipment of Persian Opium from Bushire on the S.S. “ Kohatsu Maru”. The Japanese Government reports (October 20th, 1930) that the O.C.417(n). Kohatsu Maru was sunk off the coast of Shantung quite recently after oec.417(m), p. 5, and colliding with the British steamer Æneas. There was no doubt that olcl294(f), pp. 16-17. the ship had been engaged in carrying opium from Persia ; the whole ■nnmniR transaction was directed by a group of Chinese whose leader was one ° ' ' Lee, the charterer of the ship. As far as the opium deal was concerned, neither the owner nor the captain of the ship could be proved to have had any connection with it and consequently the case was dismissed by the district court of the Kwantung Leased Territory. Furthermore, since April 1929, soon after the ship had terminated the voyage, all the officers and the crew have been scattered and the charterer of the ship and his men have also moved out of the Leased Territory leaving no trace of their present domicile. In these circumstances, the authorities were unable to proceed further with the case against the captain and crew on board the Kohatsu Maru. No. 2.—Seizure of Cocaine at Rangoon on July 31st, 1927, on the S.S. “ Hong Hwa /-x r* ,7nn/K\ • The» German Government. states (Februaryj v 12th,m 1931) that enquiriesi See also— into this case were instituted and it was ascertained that the firm of O.C.700 and (a) and E. Merck, Darmstadt, received an order to supply various narcotic 0.0.294(f), pp. 16-17. drugs from a certain Dr. So-Thian-Su of the Tong-Jin Hospital at .9Q7 Kulangsu, Amoy. Attached to the order form was a certificate from ' ' the Amoy Maritime Customs authorities dated January 12th, 1927. The firm of E. Merck had a certified translation made of this, and in it a cert ain Dr. Su-Tien-Tze of the Tung-Yen dispensary at Amoy was mentioned as the consignee. The firm, which had not noticed the difference between the spelling of the name of the doctor and the hospital in the order form and in the certified translation of the Chinese import certificate, applied, in accordance with the import permit that had been forwarded, for an export permit on behalf of Dr. Su-Tien-Tze, and the application was granted. The import permit granted by the Chinese Maritime Customs authorised the import of the following drugs : 2 lb. morphine hydrochloride (909 grammes), 2 lb. cocaine hydrochloride (909 grammes), 2 lb. powdered opium (909 grammes) and 1 lb. heroin hydrochloride (454 grammes), solely for medical purposes, and the narcotics were actually imported into Amoy on June 18th, 1927. As regards the spelling of the names of the doctor and hospital, the Beich Foreign Office stated that, in its opinion, Dr. Su-Tien-Sze (Tze) is the same as Dr. So-Thian-Su and also the hospital Tung-Yen (or, more accurately, T’ung Jen) is the same as the hospital Tong-Jin and that these variants are to be explained by the many different ways of transliterating Chinese characters according to the various dialects. Further, the German Consulate-General in Shanghai has informed the Foreign Office that, according to information sent by the authorities at Szeminghsien, Amoy, on September 10th, 1930, Dr. Su-Tien-Sze still lives in Kulangsu, Amoy, while the hospital has ceased to exist. Also in a report to the Foreign Office from the German Embassy in Peiping, the Inspectorate-General of Maritime Customs informed the Consulate- General in Shanghai that the holder of the import certificate is still living on the Island of Kulangsu at Amoy, but that he has given up the hospital and the small dispensary he kept at Chuanchow. No. 3. —Stuber Case. 0 _ The German Government states (October 10th, 1930) that, in regard See also— to the suspicions against German firms in connection with this case, O.C.876(f) and investigations by the Reichc/esundheilsamt (Public Health Administration) O.C.294(f), pp. 20-21. have revealed no grounds for supposing that they delivered narcotic 4193/157 drugs in the course of their business dealings with Stuber without the prescribed permit. This applies particularly to the case of the drugs supplied by the firm of Geyer. As regards W. Dethloff, the particulars given appear to relate to a managing clerk in the firm of C. H. Boehringer, A.-G., of Hamburg, and his part in the Naarden smuggling case. The project of German firms to establish an alkaloid factory in Turkey has not taken shape, although some German individuals apparently showed an interest S. d. N. 570 (F.) 545 (A.) 7/31. Imp. Réunies, Chambéry. — 4 — in the proposal. With reference to the delivery of Indian hemp by certain German firms, these consignments at the time of their delivery (at the beginning of 1928) were not open to objection since Indian hemp did not come under the regulations requiring a permit before the passing of the German Opium Law of December 10th, 1929, with effect as from January 1st, 1930. No. 4.—Seizure of Drugs at Rangoon on October 10th, 1928, ex the S.S. " Hong Peng ”, The British representative, on October 8th, 1930, forwarded the 0.c.903(b). following information supplied by the Japanese Government : Cj00 m t O.C.903 and (a) and Enquiries of the Koto Seiyaku Company, Ltd., of Tokio, ascertained o!c!294(e), pp. 80-82. that the package of 700 grammes of cocaine bearing the label of the 9186/1^7 company with the serial number 00004 and the date August 28th, 1928, ' ‘ was manufactured at the factory of the company in the Shidzuoka prefecture and was supplied to the Meisei Seiyaku Company of Osaka. This company in turn transferred it to a Mr. Usaburo Morishita of Osaka, who subdivided it into quantities of 25 grammes and 5 grammes and sold them. It is not known whether or not the cocaine thus divided up was smuggled out in the wrappers bearing the number 00004 in which it was packed before it was subdivided. No. 5.—Seizure of Prepared Opium at Honolulu on August 30th, 1928. The Government of the United States of America (January 7th, 1931) O.C.953(c). states that the court sentenced the defendants as follows : Lau Lee and See also— Ching Chun Hee, each twelve years and a fine of fifteen thousand dollars ; O.C.953 series, Young Bark You and Chin Lum Hee, each two years, Hong Chow and O.C.294(e), pp. 68-69 and Chin How, five years’ probation under suspended sentences of two O.C.294(f), pp. 24-25. years each. Information showed that the ring concerned had imported, between 1383/157(11). January 1926 and August 1928, 13,300 five-tael tins of opium (2,246.569 kilogrammes) and, on a capital investment of $33,000 had a gross realisation of $\ ,000,000 and a net profit of $750,000. No. 6. — Illicit Traffic in Drugs between Vienna and the Far East ; Josef Goldberg Case. The Austrian Government (October 11th, 1930) gives the following 0,C.1082(a). further information : § 0 0 Q j g Q ____ O.C.1082 and On the receipt of confidential information, the firms of “ Vitrum ” O.C.294(f), pp. 52-53. and of Camillo Hauert in Vienna were examined and it was found that, 15323/157 during the year 1928, the firm of “ Vitrum ” had delivered, ostensibly to a druggist’s shop at Graz, 5.5 kilogrammes of cocaine and to a wholesale drug concern at St. Polten, 4.6 kilogrammes of cocaine. These quantities, together with 4.45 kilogrammes from Hauert, had all been obtained by Goldberg with forged delivery orders from the Graz and St. Polten firms and had been delivered to Ernst Linn, a drug-dealer, known to be engaged in the illicit traffic, since deceased. Otto Hartmann had been persuaded by a certain Sigmund Morgonovsky to commit various thefts from his employer’s business. The stolen goods were disposed of by Morgonovsky with the help of Gustav Miinz, a former drug dealer, to Goldberg, who acted as receiver. Judicial proceedings could not be taken for illicit traffic in cocaine, as the offence was committed before the entry into force of the new poisons laws and exemption from prosecution had already been acquired by lapse of time. Hartmann was sentenced for theft to seven month’s hard labour, and Morgonovsky and Miinz, also for theft, to three months’ imprisonment each. No. 7. —Seizure of 239 Taels (9.03 Kilogrammes) of Cocaine a t S hanghai, S e p te m b e r 1929. The Austrian representative stated that, according to a letter received Minutes of the 14th Session of the from the British Legation in Vienna, the parcels had been claimed by Advisory Committee, three addressees at the Shanghai Post Office, but, as the suspicions of the P.V.29. See also— official there were aroused, he made enquiries before delivering the O.C.1106 and parcels, during which time the three persons disappeared.
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