'3 document is communicated to Governments for

°nfid■; lal information in view of the fact that it has not

1 be:considered by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in

Çium d Other Dangerous Drugs. rCommunicated to the Council C. 27. M. 27. 1942, XI and the Members of the League.] O.C.S.300 (/).

Geneva, March 1st, 1942.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS

SUMMARY

OF

ILLICIT TRANSACTIONS AND SEIZURES

REPORTED TO THE SECRETARIAT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

BETWEEN JANUARY 1st AND MARCH 31s t , 1941 APPROXIMATE AVERAGE RATES FOR 1940 OF CURRENCIES MENTIONED IN THE PRESENT DOCUMENT. CALCULATED FROM THE

STATISTICAL YEAR-BOOK OF THE LEAGUE OF V I 770A 8 1940/41

Country 1 unit Swiss francs U.S.A. dollars Africa : Egypt ...... pound 17.30 3.90 America : Ghile ...... peso 0.18 0.04 Colombia...... peso "2.50 0.57 , , • i dollar 4.40 United states ot Am erica...... ' , gold , , dollar , ,, ntA i Asia : C h in a ...... dollar 0.27 0.06 H ong-Kong...... dollar 1.01 0.23 British India ...... rupee 1.33 0.30 Japan ...... yen 1 0.23 Palestine ...... pound 17.80 4.03 Philippines...... peso 2.20 0.50 Thailand ...... tical 1.60 0.35 Europe : F ra n ce ...... franc 0.09 0.021 Portugal ...... escudo 0.16 0.04 PART I

CASES REPORTED IN PREVIOUS SUMMARIES IN REGARD TO WHICH FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

No. 1840. — Seizures at San Francisco, California, Tacoma and Seattle, Washington and New York in March, April, May and July 1S4G. On February 6th, 1941. the Government of the United State.- communicated the following further information concerning this case.

Reference : 3. The investigation in this case disclosed that one Samuel C.160.M.14o.l940.XI Onuma, Japanese, was implicated in the shipment of these narcotic ' ' drugs to the United States. Onuma was previously considered an O.L.b./Loni. , p . j . rp tx-1 i • I i important smuggler ol narcotic drugs m 1 acoma, Washington, being arrested in possession of thirty pounds ( 13 kg. 635 gr.) of morphine in February 1933, sentenced to imprisonment for nine years, but paroled and deported to Japan see seizure report No. 196 i 1 . According to correspondence received by Lum XX"ah from Chigeo Shiraishi, Onuma made a special trip to China from Japan for the purpose of securing narcotic drugs to be shipped from Japan to Lum XX"ah in the United States, it i> understood that Samuel Onuma is now residing in Shanghai. A copy of this report is being transmitted to the Japanese authorities. 4. To date, the following sentences have been imposed on defendants in this case : May 18th, 1940. C.hotaro Minatogawa was sentenced at Tacoma, Washington, to imprisonment tor ten years, and fined §1,100 ; May 28th, 1940. Iwakichi Ivinoshita was sentenced at New York City to imprisonment for five years ; August 3rd, 1940, Yoshitomo XX'ada was sentenced at San Francisco, California, to imprisonment for five years and to pay a fine of $1,000 ; August 9th, 1940, at Seattle, Washington, Koki Osugi was sentenced to imprisonment for eleven years and fined $500. On August 9th. at Seattle. Washington. Shohei Take da was sentenced to imprisonment for two years and fined $500.

RESULTS OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH CASES OF ILLICIT TRAFFIC PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

Result Reference Name Imprisonment Fine

International Settle­ ment, Shanghai : C.72.M.69.1941.XI Sixteen persons on One fined Y.50, one fined Y.30, [O.C.S.SOOf.s')], paa;e 18, remand from quar­ nine fined Y.20 each. Pro­ No. 1894 ter ending June secution suspended for two, (seizures during the 30th, 1940. Koreans, while three were second quarter 1940) discharged. C.72.M.69.1941.XI Three Formosans on One fined Y.40, the second, [0,C.S.300(s)], page 8, remand at the end prosecution suspended, and No. 1866 of September, 1940. the third was discharged. (seizures between July 3rd and September 16th, 1940).

C.72.M.69.1941.XI One Korean on re­ Fined Y.60. [O.C.S.300(s)], page 19, mand from the -No. 1894 quarter ending Sep­ (seizures from July 1st tember 30th, 1940. to July 29th, 1940).

C.72.M.69.1941.XI Thirteen Koreans on One was fined Y.60, one Y.40, [0,C.S.300(s)] page 20. remand at the end and one Y.30. Six were No. 1894 of September, 1940. each fined Y.20. Four (seizures from August were discharged. 2nd to August 27th 1940).

C.72.M.69.1941.XI Seventeen persons on One was sentenced to One was fined Y.100, one [O.C.S.300(s)], page 20, remand at the end No. 1894 imprisonment for Y.80, one Y.50, two each of September 1940. two years and six Y.40, one Y.30 and four (seizures from Septem­ months. each Y.20. Five were dis­ ber 3rd to Septem­ charged, and one was still ber 25th, 1940). on remand at the end of the year.

See document O.G.S.Conf.l 17, C.498.M.251.1933.XI [O.C.S.294(p)], page 17, No. 874.

S. d. N. 720 (F.) 625 (A.) 5/42. Imp. Granchamp, IAnnemasse. — 4 —

PART II

A. REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY OF CLANDESTINE MANUFACTURE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS AND OTHER SIMILAR CASES

B. NEW CASES OF SEIZURES DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS :

1. R aw Opiu m . 5. Co c a in e .

2. P r e p a r e d O pium and D r o s s . 6. N arcotic P il l s .

3. M o r p h in e . 7. I n d ia n H e m p .

4. H e r o in . 8. M iscellaneous .

A. REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY OF CLANDESTINE MANUFACTURE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS

No. 1926. — Shanghai International Settlement. Report communicated by the Municipal Council, Shanghai, February 6th, 1941. : No clandestine drug factories were discovered in the International O.G.b./Loni.l276. Settlement during the third quarter.

B. NEW CASES OF SEIZURES

1. RAW OPIUM

No. 1927. — Seizures in China by the Chinese Maritime Customs at various dates from June to October 1940. Report communicated by the Chinese Government, November 30th, 1940.

1. Lungkow (Shantung). 1 (a). Raw opium : 758 grammes.

2. Canton. 1(a). Prepared opium : 4 kg. 753 gr.

3. Kowloon. 1 (a). Opium : 1 kg. 950 gr.

4. Foochow. 1 (a). Prepared opium : 48 grammes. In five tins, without any label or printed matter. Formosan origin.

5. Chefoo (Weihaiwei). 1 (a). Raw opium : 2 kg. 220 gr. Mordyne : “ Hata ” — 400 ampoules and 280 boxes. For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1288.

No. 1928, — Seizures in the Shanghai International Settlement, during the Fourth Quarter, 1940. Report communicated by the Shanghai Municipal Council, February 6th, 1941. Reference : O.C.S./Conf.1276.

October lAih, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 3 kg. 635 gr. (128 ounces). North China origin. No marks. T ■ vv Tohe °Pium was seized from a private motor-car occupied by Dzien Yang Yuen and Liu Ming Sung and driven by Sau Moh Sung. The accused admitted that they were transport­ ing the opium to a certain address on Shantung Road for sale. QUESTIONNAIRE REFERRING TO PART II

Kind and quantity of drugs fa ) seized or (b ) involved in the illicit transaction. Origin of drugs. Name of manufacturer of drugs : labels, marks, packing, etc. Name of consignor, consignee and addressee, or other persons implicated Forwarding agents and other persons or firms whose names appear in connection with the case. Additional details. Legal proceedings and penalties. — 5 —

4. The first two accused were each sentenced to imprisonment for five years and ordered, in addition, to pay a fine of $1,000, while the third was sentenced to imprisonment for two years and six months.

November lsf, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 994 grammes (35 ounces). North China origin. Consisting of three small packets, each bearing a trade mark of an “ Urn ” and also bearing a “ Felix ” type cat chop mark. 3. Acting on information received, detectives raided the Moh Shing Transportation Company, House 9, Uane 47, Canton Road, and seized the opium in question, which was concealed in three packages of ham and which were to be transported to Kashing. The transportation company’s accountant and his assistant named respectively Mang Kuo Uiang and Yao Kyi Daung, who were arrested, denied all knowledge of the opium concealed in the packages of ham, claiming that these were received from one Zee Hoong Sung for despatch to the interior. Exhaustive enquiries subsequently led to the arrest of Zee, who admitted having sent the packages containing the opium to the transportation company. 4. Zee Hoong Sung was sentenced to imprisonment for four months while the other two accused were discharged.

November 3rd, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 7 kg. 498 gr. (264 ounces). North China origin. No marks. 3. Kuh Foong Ming was arrested on Nanking Road in possession of the opium in question. He claimed that he had obtained the opium from a man named Tsang Ts Doong at the Great Eastern Hotel, 635 Nanking Road, and was taking it to Wusih. Enquiries made at the hotel ascertained that Tsang had absconded a few minutes prior to the arrival of the Police. 4. Kuh Foong Ming was sentenced to imprisonment for six months and deprived of civil rights for the same period.

October 28th lo November 19th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 1 kg. 988 gr. (70 ounces). Probably North China origin. Some of the packets bore the chop of Zung Yah Kyi opium hong and labels of the Stork brand. 3. There were five cases. A search of a suspected opium-selling-place at 124, Annam Road resulted in the arrest of Kyung Tuh Tsing and the seizure of 426 grammes (15 ounces) of raw opium. During a Police raid of the Tien Fah Yuen teashop, 1425 Yangtsepoo Road, to effect the arrest of some armed robbers, S. Chin Uung, a revenue guard employed by the Salt Gabelle entered the teashop and, on being searched, was found in possession of a packet of raw opium, weighing 426 grammes (15 ounces), which was concealed in the stockings of his right leg. Sung Ping Chi was arrested by a search party on Connaught Road in possession of 483 grammes (17 ounces) of raw opium. Subsequent enquiries ascertained that he was a professional opium-carrier employed by the Tar Shing opium hong, located outside the control of the Municipal Police. Another professional opium-carrier named Koh Chin Uiang was intercepted on Taku Road while riding a bicycle. On being searched, he was found in possession of 199 grammes (7 ounces) of raw opium which were found hidden in the inside pocket of his jacket. Tsang Tsong Uiang was taken into custody at Yates Road in possession of 454.5 grammes (16 ounces) of raw opium. 4. Kyung Tuh Tsing and Koh Chin Uiang were each sentenced to imprisonment for two years and six months and S. Chin Lung and Sung Ping Chi to imprisonment for six months, while Tsang Tsong Liang was ordered to pay a fine of S150.

December 1st to December 16th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 3 kg. 39 gr. (107 ounces). North China origin. Some of the packets bore the stamp of an Opium Suppression Rureau. 3. Loh Ching Ziang was arrested on Kwangse Road in possession of 511 grammes (18 ounces) of raw opium. He stated that he was carrying the opium on behalf of one Tsoong Pah Liang, an employee of one of the licensed opium hongs at Rrenan Road located outside the control of the Municipal Police. Tseu Kung Sung was apprehended on Yu Y a Ching Road in possession of a packet of raw opium, weighing 511 grammes (18 ounces). He stated that he was employed by the Koong Ih opium hong in Nantao and was on his way to deliver the opium at a certain address on Burkhill Road. The Formosan Chin Ten Kan was taken into custody at his home at House 7, Lane 144, Kwangse Road, where he was engaged in the sale of opium. He was found in possession of 142 grammes (5 ounces) of opium at the time of his arrest. Zah Nyoeh was arrested on Canton Road in possession of 1 kg. 874 gr. (66 ounces) of raw opium. His arrest was effected as a result of a quarrel with loafers, who attempted to extort money from him. 4. Loh Ching Ziang and Zah Nyoeh were each sentenced to imprisonment for six months, and Tseu Kung Sung to imprisonment for eight months. The case against Chin 4 en Kan was still on remand at the Japanese Consular Court at the end of the year. - 6 -

December 24th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 1 kg. 846 gr. (65 ounces). Shantung origin, concealed in secret cavities of hollowed-out wooden implements such as long-handled claw type hammers, large wooden spoke-shaves, metal rollers, scrapers and wooden wash-basin trestles. A photograph illustrating the manner of smuggling is attached.1 3. The above-described wooden implements concealing the opium were seized from a public motor-car on Bubbling Well Road which was occupied by Liu Yung Kwei, Wong Kyung San and Wong Pau Zung who were arrested. Liu Yung Kwei admitted that the implements with the opium were his property and that he brought them to Shanghai from Shantung. The other two persons arrested denied having any connection with the case. 4. The accused were each sentenced to imprisonment for six months.

October 1st to December 31st, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 5 kg. 623 gr. (198 ounces). 3. The above quantity of raw opium was seized in public opium-smoking dens or as the result of numerous arrests effected in the streets, by search parties, of persons found in possession of insignificant quantities of raw opium purchased in opium hongs located outside the control of the Municipal Police.

No. 1929. — Seizures at Benthuy (Annam) Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 74 kg. 900 gr. No marks. Prepared opium : 2 kg. 500 gr.

No. 1930. — Seizures at Thanh-Hoa, Hatinh and Phu-Nghia, in Annam, Indo-China, during the first quarter of1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 16 kg. 470 gr. No marks.

No. 1931. — Seizures at Haiphong (Tonkin) Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 46 kg. 850 gr. No marks.

No. 1932, — Seizures at Ninh-Binh (Tonkin) Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 22 kg. 300 gr. No marks.

No. 1933. — Seizures at Hanoi (Tonkin) Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 fa). Prepared opium : 3 kilogrammes. Raw opium : 31 kg. 900 gr.

No. 1934. — Seizures at Namdinh, Hoa-Binh, Phu-Tho, Yenbay, Thai Nguyen and Bao ninh (Tonkin), Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Raw opium : 17 kg. 850 gr. No marks. For details of seizures under Nos. 1929-1934, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1253.

No. 1935. — Seizure ex s.s. “ Athos II ” at Marseilles on December 21st, 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, February 5th, 1941. S6rece^ e 1 (a)- Raw opium : 23 kg. 700 gr. in cakes. Origin unknown. O.C.S./Conf.12o7. 3. During an inspection of the s.s. Athos II on December 21st, 1940, the Marseilles Customs Service discovered a bag containing cakes of raw opium, weighing in all 19 kilogrammes, in the cylinder of the barrel of an ash-ejector pump. An enquiry was immediately conducted by this Service, in collaboration with the Special Police, but it was not possible to identify the person or persons who had clandestinely brought this drug aboard. Furthermore, the origin of the drug seized could not be ascertained. On the same day, the staff of the Customs Administration surprised the Chinese seaman Nguyen Van Quank, born in 1898 at Xuan Dong, in the district of Tenh La (Tonkin), when he was in the act of attempting to take ashore from the s.s. Athos II 4 kg. 700 gr. of raw opium in cakes.Nguyen Van Quank, son of Nguyen Van Ngas and Mé, married and father

1 Note. — Not received in the Secretariat. — j — of two children, residing at 48, Rue Mezemod, Marseilles, was very closely questioned, but he refused to say for whom the opium was intended. Nor would he say exactly where it came from and the enquiry conducted by the Special Police in this connection yielded no result. 4. Nguyen Van Quank was handed over to the Marseilles Public Prosecutions Depart­ ment and held under arrest.

No. 1936. — Seizure on board the s.s. “ Mariette Pacha ”, at Marseilles, on November 7th, 1840. Report communicated by the French Government, January 18th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Raw opium : 52 kilogrammes in forty-four cakes. O.C.S./Conf. 1252. . 3. The opium was found on November 7th, 1940, hidden in an expansion-box of the oil-fuel tank on board the s.s. Mariette Pacha, during an inspection carried out by the Marseilles Customs service. The enquiry which was at once conducted for the purpose of discovering the owner or owners yielded no result.

No. 1937. — Seizure at Marseilles, on February 19th, 1941. Report communicated by the French Government, March 26th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Opium : 1 gramme. O.C.S./Conf,1289. 3. On January 28th, 1941, information was supplied to the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department by the Consul-General of the United States at Marseilles concerning the movements of a Chinaman named Lew Ling, born at Canton (China), son of Ven Fer and Tan Gui, unmarried, employed as a cook, residing at 21, Rue Torte, Marseilles. This foreigner seemed to be engaged in the drug traffic. Following on the enquiry conducted by the above-mentioned branch of the Police, report was made to the Public Prosecutions Department at Marseilles, and the Examining Magistrate issued a letter of request with a view to a search to be carried out at the residence of the above-named person. The search was effected on February 19th, 1941, and a packet containing about one gramme of opium was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in Lew Ling’s room. A bundle of letters from various persons, written in Chinese, was also seized. The questioning of Lew Ling yielded no information concerning the origin of the opium seized at his residence. 4. Lew Ling was handed over to the Examining Magistrate and committed to prison.

No. 1938. — Seizures in Bombay in July and August 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom, January 11th, 1941. 1 (a). Opium : 2 kg. 765 gr. (6 lbs. 3 3/i tolas) containing 9.6% anhydrous morphine. Covered in oil paper. No labels. Charas : 3 kg. 686 gr. (8 lbs. 4% tolas). Specific rotation of the resin of the drug 79°. The charas appears to be of s/8ths normal quality. Contained in oilcloth bags, without marks. For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1285.

No. 1939. — Seizures at Calcutta from April to September 1940. Reports communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom, Januarv 3rd, 10th and 11th, 1941. 1 (a). Raw opium : 10 kg. 506 gr. (9.5 seers 23 chittaks 24.7 tolas). For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1296.

No. 1940. — Seizure at Calcutta on October 6th, 1949. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom, February 2nd, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Opium : 8 gram m es (5 gram m es — 2/5ths of a tola — in O.C.S./Conf.1293. a packet containing a small tin box ; 3 gram m es — xji of a tola — in a cigarette packet). 3. When, on the arrival of the s.s. Yuensang at Calcutta on October 6th, 1940, Lang Leun was searched, a packet containing 5 grammes of opium was found in his pocket and 3 grammes were found wrapped up in a cigarette packet. The Yuensang of J. Skinner & Co. came from Kobe via Osaka, Hong-Kong, Singapore and Penang. 4. Lang Leun was fined a sum of Rs. 25/— . The fine was paid.

No. 1941. — Seizure at Karachi on July 24th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom. January 3rd, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Opium : 454.5 grammes (one pound). Iranian origin. O.C.S./Conf. 1282. 6 • n , ^ 3. On July 24th, 1940, during the rummaging of the s.s. Ora by the Customs Department at Oil Pier, Keamari Harbour at Karachi, ■154.5 grammes (1 pound) of Iranian opium were found concealed in a sieve under a desk — 8 —

in the cabin of the Chinese crew member Ah-Sing, son of Loo. The steamer came from Abadan to Karachi without touching any British Indian port en route. 4. On July 26th, 1940, Ah-Sing was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of Rs. 150 or in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months.

No. 1942. — Seizure at Lourenço Marques on December 3rd, 1940. Report communicated by the Portuguese Government, March 22nd, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Opium : 1 kg. 100 gr. In forty-eight cakes each weighing O.C.S./Conf,1295. 23 grammes, with the exception of one which weighed 19 grammes. No marks or labels. •3. The opium was seized on December 3rd, 1940, from Ng Shu Yeow, married, aged 23, native of Canton, seaman on the Norwegian s.s. Soli. Ng Shu Yeow stated that he had signed on at Singapore and had purchased the drug in Abdeen, Rritish India, for sale in Lourenço Marques. The Soli stopped at Abadan. Iran, on its wray from Singapore to Lourenço Marques. 4. Ng Shu Yeow wras fined 12,307.90 escudos, costs and stamps relating to the case and confiscation of the drug on behalf of the State. The offender did not pay the fine and was sent to the Criminal Court for imprisonment and judgment.

No. 1943. — Seizure at Kilis near the Syrian Frontier, Turkey. Report communicated by the Turkish Government, March 4th. 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Raw opium : 194 kilogrammes. 3. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare at Ankara transmitted under date of March 4th, 1941, a report from the Commander of the Customs Guard to the effect that Hasan Türkü, aged 56, a farmer at Kilis, was detained, on returning from a visit to Syria, at the Customs Guard Post at Karsentas, which is situated in a sector of the southern frontier, with a view to enquiring into the reasons for his journey to Syria, as the Customs officers suspected that he had gone there for an unlawful purpose. After being somewhat closely questioned, Hasan finally confessed that he had gone to Syria on behalf of a certain Tahir Kenan, a merchant living at Kilis, for the purpose of finding a buyer for a quantity of raw opium belonging to the merchant. He explained at the same time that the opium in question was deposited, carefully hidden, in the stable adjacent to his own residence. Acting on this information, the Police conducted a search of Hasan’s house and discovered there 12 petrol tins filled with raw opium, hidden in the place mentioned. 194 kilogrammes of opium were seized and handed over to the judicial authorities. In the meantime, Hasan fled in order to escape from the legal proceedings. 4. The case has been referred to the local Public Prosecutions Office, which has opened an enquiry.

No. 1944. — Seizure on the Turco-Syrian Frontier on September 2nd, 1940. Report comunicated by the Turkish Government, December 9th, 1940. Reference : 1 (a). Raw opium : 10 kg. 600 gr. 3. On September 2nd, 1940, at 9.30 p.m. the Turco-Syrian frontier, in the Kilis sector, between the Tilel and Rasaf Customs Guard posts, wTas the scene of an attempt at smuggling with a view to the unlawful exportation of raw opium to Syria. In the darkness of the evening, the Customs officers hidden in the neighbourhood thought they could make out the figure of a man who was leading a horse and winding his way through the bushes for the purpose of reaching the frontier. They called on the man to stop but he took to flight, leaving the horse behind him. The fugitive was soon caught and searched and this led to the discovery, among his effects, of 10 kg. 600 gr. of raw opium. The prisoner stated that he was Osman Oglou Sükrii, aged 34, a native of Kilis, and he admitted that he was going to Aleppo in order to sell there the opium that was found in his possession. 4. The accused was handed over to the local Public Prosecutor, who has opened an enquiry, the results of which will be communicated in due course.

No. 1945. — Seizures at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 14th and 15th, 1941. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, April 18th, 1941. Reference : ^ 1 (a). Raw opium : 478 gram m es (16.843 ounces) ; O.C.S./Conf.1292, Prepared opium : 61 grammes (2.161 ounces) ; Opium dross : 29 grammes (1.011 ounces). No marks or labels. 3. Early in January 1941, Customs officers at New York City received information that, while the Dutch s.s. Saleier of the Netherlands Royal Mail was in that p o r t o n December 25th, 1940, a quantity of raw opium had been smuggled as hore and sold to certain Newr York Chinese, and that a further quantity of opium remained aboard the ship. This information was immediately transmitted to Customs officers at Norfolk (Virginia), Baltimore (Maryland), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), at which ports the Saleier was scheduled to touch. The — 9 —

Saleier left Calcutta, India, on October 17th, 1940, and arrived at Philadelphia on January 14th, 1941, via Colombo, Ceylon, Durban, Capetown, Port Castries, Boston, New York, Baltimore and Norfolk. Search of the vessel at Norfolk and Baltimore was without result, Upon the arrival of the Saleier at Philadelphia, a Customs agent, posing as a purchaser, entered into conversation with one of the Chinese crew members who was suspected of complicity in the alleged smuggling act at New York City. This Chinese stated that “ there was no opium left ” , but that he would deliver a quantity of that drug to the supposed buyer on the next voyage of the vessel. Shortly thereafter, Customs searching officers found a lump of raw opium concealed on “ L ” beam, under the main deck, over the refrigerating machine. The suspected Chinese was then arrested. On January 15th, 1941, Customs searching officers found concealed on top of a cold boiler in the boiler-room the above- mentioned prepared opium and opium dross, together with an opium bowl and an empty tin “ toy ”. Acting on information obtained from questioning the suspected Chinese the day before, Customs officers interrogated four other Chinese crew members. One of these Chinese, Ah Foo, stated that the lump of raw opium belonged to him, and that he had purchased it in Calcutta from a negro who brought it aboard the ship, to whom he paid 85 rupees. Another Chinese, Foo Chin, admitted ownership of the prepared opium, opium dross, pipe bowl and the empty tin “ toy ”. The latter also admitted that he was part- owner of the raw opium purchased by Ah Foo at Calcutta, having purchased several ounces of the raw opium from Ah Foo and converted it into prepared opium in the ship’s kitchen by cooking it with water. Chemical analysis disclosed that the raw opium contained 10% anhydrous morphine, the prepared opium 13.3% anhydrous morphine, and the opium dross 11.2% anhydrous morphine. The lump of raw opium was wrapped in brown paper and measured approximately 5% inches (14 centimetres) in length by 4% inches (11 centimetres) in width. 4. In view of the confessions of Ah Foo and Foo Chin, the Chinese who was arrested on January 14th was released. Ah Foo and Foo Chin will be prosecuted.

Note. — Seizures of raw opium were also made in connection with the following cases, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings : O.C.S. Conf. 1311 (23) under “ Prepared Opium „ 1311 (24) „ 1275 (25) ,, ,, 1259 (49) ,, “ Indian H em p”. „ 1305 (50) „

Q u a n t it ie s of R a w O p iu m se iz e d as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t : 1940 1941 707 kg. 472 gr. 194 kg. 479 gr.

2. PREPARED OPIUM AND DROSS

No. 1946. — Seizures in the Shanghai International Settlement, during the Fourth Quarter, 1940. Report communicated by the Shanghai Municipal Council, February 6th, 1941. Reference : 1 la). Prepared opium : 1 kg. 335 gr. (47 ounces). O.C.S./Conf. 1276. 3. A total of 1 kg. 335 gr. of prepared opium was seized as the result of a series of raids on public opium-smoking dens discovered to be operating in the International Settlement.

No. 1947. — Seizure at Tourane (Annam), Indo-China, during the first quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, December 28th, 1940. 1 (a). Prepared opium : 7 kg. 860 gr., of which 2 kg. 80 gr. were Monopoly opium. For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1253.

Note. — The report on principal seizures in Indo-China during the first quarter of 1940 states further that, during the quarter, 466 kilogrammes of raw opium and 19 kilogrammes °f prepared or concentrated opium were seized ; charges wrere laid in 232 cases ; 123 persons were arrested and 86 convicted. In all cases the opium was confiscated on behalf of the Monopoly. — 10

No. 1948. — Seizures in Macao from June to December 1940. Reports communicated by the Portuguese Government on February 21st and 26th, March 18th and April 16th, 1941. 1 (a). Prepared opium : 60 grammes (1.6 taels). “ Halan ” : 737 grammes (19.5 taels). Gum used by traffickers for adultering prepared opium : 4 kg. 397 grammes (14 taels and 8.5 lbs.). White products : 964 kg. 60 gr. Forty tins weighing 24 kg. 115 gr. (53 lbs) each. Four forged labels. Heroin pills : 4,160. For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1319.

No. 1949. — Seizures in Thailand during the First Quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the Thai Government, February 14th, 1941. Internal Seizures. Kg. Gr. (Tamlungs Hoons) 1 (a). Prepared opium : 76 137 (2,030 30) Raw opium : 38 624 (1,029 96) Dross : 3 979 ( 106 11) The place of origin of the prepared opium was specified in two cases only as being Mac Sai, involving a quantity of 7 kg. 313 gr. (195 tamlungs). Port Seizures. Kg. Gr. (Tamlungs Hoons) 1 (a). Prepared opium : 2 489 (66 37) Dross : — 40 (1 7)

No. 1950. — Seizures in Thailand during the Second Quarter of 1940. Report communicated by the Thai Government, February 14th, 1941. Internal Seizures. Kg. Gr. 1 (a). Prepared opium : 182 310 Raw opium : 38 879 Dross : 5 102 In all cases, places of origin are unknown. Port Seizures. Kg. Gr. 1 (a). Prepared opium : 18 803 Raw opium : — 171 Dross : — 155 For details of seizures under Nos. 1949 and 1950, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1311.

No. 1951. — Seizures at New York City in August and September 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, March 12th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 4 kg. 232 gr. Contained in twelve O.C.S./Conf.1275. 5-tael tins (2 kg. 268 gr.) and six tin boxes of a total net weight of 1 kg. 964 gr. (69 ounces, 63 grains). Raw opium : 2 kg. 545 gr. (89 ounces, 263 grains), net, consisting of six bricks. Each of the 5-tael (189 grammes) tins was of the familiar “ Rooster & Elephant ” brand (Lam Kee-Macao), similar to those alleged to be prepared and exported from the French leased territory of Kwanchow-wan. The raw opium bore no identifying marks or labels. 3. On August 7th, 1940, narcotic agents effected a purchase of one 5-tael (189 grammes j tin of prepared opium from Young Yee Hop, Chinese. On August 21st, a second 5-tae tin was purchased from Low Bing, Chinese. On August 28th, one brick of raw opium was purchased from Low Ring. On August 30th, a search warrant w^as obtained for the premises occupied by Low7 Bing, and the search resulted in the seizure of ten 5-tael (1 kg. 890 gr.) tins of prepared opium and five bricks of raw opium. Low Bing was arrested on September 22nd, 1940, while the arrest of Young Yee Hop was effected on September 24th. At the time of the latter arrest, Young Yee Hop was in the act of smoking opium. 7 grammes (107 grains) of prepared opium were seized. Certain correspondence was seized which indicated that the opium seized had been shipped from Hong-Kong to New York, via Rotterdam and Curacao. The pertinent facts in this case have been furnished to the British and Netherlands authorities. A biscuit tin marked “ Angelus Superior Biscuits, manufactured by the Garden Confectionery 6c Biscuit Company, Hong-Kong ”, found on the premises of Young Yee Hop, is believed to have been used to contain certain of the bricks of raw opium. Also believed — 11 to have been used to carry the opium was a heavy canvas bag marked “ Julius L. Penha & Sons, Curacao, Perfumery Shop A pair of shoes with false inner soles was used to smuggle the opium from vessels into the port of New York. 4. On November 13th, 1940, Low Bing and Young Yee Hop were each sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen months.

No. 1952. — Seizures at Brawley and Calexico, California, on July 27th and September 28th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 21st, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 47 grammes. O.C.S./Conf.r277. Contained in two jars without identifying marks or labels ; two paper “ bindles ” ; and a glass jar bearing Chinese characters reading " Tiger trade-mark — 10,000 gold oil ”, Since “ 10,000 gold ” is said to be a Chinese idiom for “ great value ”, the translation might read : “ The highly valuable tiger brand oil ”. A figure of a tiger also appeared on the jar. 3. Paul Lopez Ochoa, an American citizen, was arrested by Customs patrolmen on July 27th, 1940, at a point approximately half-a-mile south of Brawley, California, with two jars containing 36 grammes (I1/» ounce) of prepared opium concealed on his person. He stated that he purchased the opium in Mexicali, Mexico. Melvin Elmer Darling, American citizen, drug addict, was arrested on September 28th, 1940, at Calexico, California, by Customs officers who had received information that he had purchased a quantity of prepared opium in Mexicali. One glass jar containing 8 grammes (120 grains) net of prepared opium and two paper “ bindles ” containing a net total of 3 grammes (40 grains) of prepared opium were found on his person. A copy of the report was being transmitted to the Mexican authorities. 4. The case against Ochoa is still pending. Darling will be prosecuted.

No. 1953. — Seizures at Nogales, Arizona, on September 16th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 170.4 grammes (6 ounces). O.C.S./Conf. 1-263. Brucine : 14.2 grammes (0.5 ounce). The opium, containing 9.2% anhydrous morphine, was put up in a glass jar without identifying mark or label, while the brucine, falsely labelled as morphine hydrochloride, was contained in a bottle bearing the false label of E. Merck, Darmstadt,1 3. Acting on information that Patrick N. Collino, an American citizen, residing at Tonawanda, New York, would attempt to smuggle a quantity of narcotics into the United States from Mexico, Customs patrolmen stationed themselves near a school in Nogales, Arizona, and observed Collino pick up a package from the ground. He was arrested, and examination of the package disclosed that it contained 170.4 grammes of prepared opium and 14.2 grammes of brucine. Domenico Nicolas Prato, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Raffaele Quasarano, residing in Highland Park, Michigan, both American citizens, were later arrested in the vicinity of the school building where they were awaiting the return of Collino. All three have a previous criminal record. 4. Collino, Prato and Ouasarano are being held for prosecution.

No. 1954. — Seizure at Jersey City, New Jersey, on October 2nd, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Various articles bearing traces of prepared opium (0.135 < .C.S./Conf.l265. grammes) and containing 13.42 grammes of cannabis, consisting of the following items : Net weight grammes ounce 1. One small stone container with trace of smoking- o p iu m . 0.0284 (0.001) 2. Two empty vials with traces of opium alkaloids. . . 0.0011 (0.00004) 3. One pocket-knife with traces of smoking-opium .... 0.0994 (0.0035) 1. Two medicinal droppers with traces of smoking-opium 0.0057 (0.0002) 5. One matchbox containing a cigarette butt which contains cannabis...... 0.16 (0.0056) 6. One soup spoon with Camel cigarette wrapper and pieces of cotton saturated with smoking-opium 0.7952 (0.023) 1 ■ A plug of brown gum consisting of compressed canna­ bis re s in ...... 10.5 (0.37) This cannabis appears to be in the form referred to in Rritish India as Charas, and in Egypt and the Near East as Hashish, although it is somewhat softer and more pliable than true Egyptian Hashish.

1 For the most recent reference to non-narcotic substances bearing false Merck labels, see document C.72.M.69.1941. [O.C.S.300(s)], page 33, No. 1924. — 12 —

Net weight grammes ounce 8. Chinese brass container, containing an ash residue of cannabis ...... 0.34 (0.012) 9. Paper wrapper containing cannabis...... 0.71 (0.025) 10. Small paper box containing dried cannabis bearing the inscription “ Govt. Opium and Hemp Drugs Depot, Bombay. % Tola Ganja ” ...... 1.7 (0.06) The cannabis in this box is apparently what is known in British India as Ganja, consisting of the dried, broken, flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, It is similar to marihuana, but is not quite so finely pulverised and is of a somewhat more sticky consistency. 11. Matchbox containing a cigarette butt containing cannabis...... Amount too small to determine net weight. Other items bore no identifying marks or labels.

3. From crew gossip it was ascertained by Customs officers at Jersey City that George A. Harms, American citizen, oiler on the American President Lines’ s.s. President Van Buren, which had sailed from Hong-Kong on July 28th, 1940, arriving at Jersey City on October 2nd, 1940, via Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Capetown and Trinidad, was confined in the vessel’s sick-bay owing to narcotic addiction. Search of Harms’ cabin by the ship’s doctor revealed numerous articles indicating narcotic addiction, which articles were turned over to the captain of the ship, from whom the Customs officers obtained them. 4. The case was presented to the Grand Jury at Newark, New Jersey, and this Jury returned a “ no true bill ”, However, it is understood that the defendant is wanted as a material witness in a pending narcotic case in New York.

No. 1955. — Seizures at San Francisco (California) and New York City on October 2nd and November 5th and 15th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, March 21st, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 265.8 grammes net and 1 kg. 356 gr. O.C.S./Conf. 1298. gross ; contained in four soft-metal tubes, each tube weighing 9.7 grammes (149.86 grains) net, total net weight of the four tubes being 38.8 grammes (599.44 grains) ; fifteen similar tubes of a total gross wreight of 220 grammes (3,392 grains) ; one 6-tael tin, the contents of which weighed 227 grammes (8 ounces) net, and one glass jar weighing 1 kg. 136 gr. (2% pounds) gross. Each tube had stamped into the metal at one folded-over end the words 11 Hong Kong ” and Roman numerals. On the other side of the tubes appeared the words “ Packing Plant Singapore ” . The four tubes first mentioned bore the numerals MCMXL, the others the numerals MXMXXXIX.1 The 6-tael tin bore the familiar “ Rooster and Elephant ” markings, which appear on 5-tael tins of the Lam Kee-Macao variety, believed to originate in Kwangchow-XVan2. The glass jar bore no identifying marks or labels. The metal tubes described above appear to be similar to those understood to be packed by the British Opium Monopoly in Singapore and distributed among other opium monopolies in the British colonies and possessions in the Far East. 3. Upon the arrival of the American President Lines’ s.s. President Taft at San Francisco on October 2nd, 1940, the master of the vessel turned over to Customs officers four metal tubes of prepared opium, stating that they had been found concealed in a deck locker on “ A ” deck of the vessel, when on the high seas. Although the ship wras searched thoroughly at sea by ship’s personnel, and in port by Customs officers, no further contraband was found. Ownership of the opium was not ascertained. Nine tubes of prepared opium were purchased by narcotic agents at New York City from Sang Cheung and Chow Fook on November 5th, 1940. These Chinese were arrested on November 15th, 1940, at w'hich time six tubes, one 6-tael tin and one glass jar of prepared opium were seized. The tubes are apparently known among New York Chinese as “ Two Chien packed opium ” (Ten Chien being equal to one tael = 37.8 gr.). Investigation in connection with the latter seizure indicated that the source of supply of the prepared opium was Hong-Kong. Therefore, all pertinent data are being transmitted to the British authorities. The President Taft left Hong-Kong on September 10th, 1940, and arrived at San Francisco on October 2nd, 1940, via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu. 4. Sang Cheung and Chow Fook will be prosecuted.

1 See documents C.72.M.69.1941.XI [O.C.S.300(s)], page 14, No. 1883, and O.C.S. Conf. 1205, in regard to seizure of similar tubes at Phoenix, Arizona. Photographs accompanying the report on that seizure show the numerals MCMXXXX. They do not show the w'ords “ Packing Plant Singapore ”, However, re-examination of that seizure indicates that these words likewise appeared on the tubes described in that report. 1 The actual origin of the 6-tael tins is not known, and there have been but two seizures of this type of tin —- namely, those covered by seizure reports No. 392 and 480, both having been effected in 1935. See document C.265.M. 135.1935.XI [O.C.S.294(z)], page 22, No. 1623, and C.167.M.I03.1936.XI [O.C.S.300], page 21, No. 58. — 13

No. 1956. — Seizure at San Francisco, California, on November 30th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 13th. 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 192 grammes, contained in one 5-tael u.us./ioni.i^t)8. tin weighing 189 grammes (6 2/3 ounces) net ; three rubber finger­ stalls of a total net weight of 3 grammes (40 grains). The 5-tael tin was of the familiar Yick Kee brand similar to those alleged to be packed in and exported from the French leased territory of Kwangchow-wan. The other opium containers bore no identifying marks or labels. 3. A Customs guard at San Francisco, in searching the person of Glenn Edgar Bliss, American citizen, waiter on the s.s. Mariposa, discovered the 5-tael tin of prepared opium wrapped in paper, fastened with adhesive tape, and a loop made of the tape to hang on a suspender strap inside his trousers. Further search of Bliss’s person resulted in the discovery in a pocket, of a tobacco sack containing three rubber finger-stalls filled with prepared opium. Bliss admitted that he is a drug addict and has taken two cures since 1935. He stated that he purchased the 5-tael tin and one 1-tael tin of prepared opium in Shanghai (where, according to him, it is offered freely to sailors from American vessels), paying $25 for the two tins. He said that the opium in the finger-stalls was all that was left of the contents of the 1-tael tin. The Mariposa, of the American “ Matson Line ”, sailed from Melbourne, Australia, on October 14th, 1940, arriving at San Francisco on November 30th, via Sydney, Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu, Shanghai, Chinwangtao, Gensen and Kobe. 4. The defendant is being held for prosecution.

No. 1957. — Seizure at Honolulu, T.H., on November 13th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Prepared opium : 757 grammes (26.66 ounces) net. In O.C.S./Conf. 1270. four 5-tael tins of the familiar “ Rooster and Elephant ” brand (Lam Kee-Macao), similar to tins alleged to be packed in and exported from the French leased territory of Kwangchow-wan. 3. Upon the arrival of the American President Uines’ s.s. President Pierce at Honolulu on November 13th, 1940, the master of the vessel turned four 5-tael tins of “ Rooster and Elephant ” prepared opium over to Customs officers, stating that they had been found while the vessel was leaving Manila, wrapped in two towels in a locker situated on the boat deck, starboard side, adjacent to the tea-room. The President Pierce left Manila on October 25th, 1940, stopping at Hong-Kong, Shanghai and Kobe on its way to Honolulu. It was not possible to identify the owner of these tins, but a former crew member of the vessel is suspected.

No. 1958. — Seizures in the Philippine Islands in 1939. Information communicated by the Government of the United States in the annual report for 1939 covering the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Reference : C. 29. M.26.1941. XI. -O.C./A.R.1939/67). 1. Mi.sam.is, June 11//;, 1939. 1 (a). Box containing 100 I ins of opium, each tin weighing 62.6 gr., Lion Brand, box marked “ A.V.H. ” . 3. Reliable information having been received by the Provincial Inspector of Misamis Occidental, to the effect that two boxes marked “ A.V.H. ” containing tins of opium were being unloaded in Misamis from the steamship Pan ay on June 11th, 1939, instructions were given to arrest the person claiming the boxes in question. One box was unloaded on I he wharf, the other had already been sent to the warehouse ; the latter turned out to be the box containing the above-mentioned quantity of opium. Subsequently, Chinaman Sy Chin Di claimed the box in the warehouse and when questioned alleged that he was only sent lo get the same by one An g Vea Ha. The latter, however, could not be located in spite of the search made. 4. Sy Chin Di was placed under arrest and a criminal complaint filed against him with the Justice of the Peace Court. The case is still pending.

2. Surigao, June 13th, 1939. 1 (a). Twelve tins of opium weighing 700 gr., Lion Brand. 3. A search of the store of Po Sun Brothers, San Nicolas St., Surigao, revealed the above-mentioned quantity of opium. The owner of the opium, Tan Tuat Hao, alleged that the drug was entrusted to him by one Domingo, who is supposed to be residing in Cagayan, Oriental Misamis. 4. A criminal complaint for illegal possession of opium was filed with the local court against Tan Tuat Hao on June 13th, 1939. The case is pending. — 14 —

3. San Pablo, Laguna, August 10th, 1939.

1 fa). Five tins of prepared opium, marked “ Lion One jar containing prepared opium. Four packages of opium dross. Two oil lamps. One broken jar stained with opium. Three measuring apparatus with traces of opium. 3. On August 10th. 1939, the Provincial Inspector and his men searched a supposed opium den in the house of Chinaman Tan Ho alias Tan U alias Oh Na in San Pablo, Laguna, and found the above-mentioned articles. One Chinaman named Siok could not explain his presence in the house ; further investigation showed that Chinaman Dy Ling was the maint,ainer of the den, 4. A complaint for visiting an opium den was filed against Siok. The case is pending. Dy Ling pleaded guilty Lo the charge when a complaint for violation of the Opium Law wras filed against him.

4. Manila, August 22nd, 1939. 1 (a). 1 kg. 304 gr. net of opium contained in several thousand opium pills. 3. On August 22nd, 1939, while searching the person and baggage of Go Suan Te, a Chinese woman, at pier 5, Customs Secret Service agents came across several thousand opium pills, concealed in the lower chamber of a double-bottomed box brought in by her. The upper chamber of the box contained miscellaneous articles such as combs, pieces of “ camphor ” sheets, paper packages of tea and bottles of lotion. Upon analysis, the pills were found to contain 1,304 grammes net of opium. Go Suan Te was a passenger on the British steamship Anking, which sailed from Amoy on August 18th and arrived at Manila August 21st. 4. The case is pending.

5. Baguio, October 9th, 1939.

1 (a). Empty tin can marked “ Lion ”, three empty bottles, several pieces of stained paper and a bottle containing a black substance, all of which upon analysis were found positive for opium. 3. On October 9th. 19.39, the Baguio Police raided apartment No. 13-A, Leung So Building occupied by Chinaman Lee See alias Sy Ho Ten and in the kitchen found the above- mentioned articles. 4. A complaint, for violation of the Opium Law was filed with the Fiscal’s Office against, Sy Ho Ten. lie pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to pay a fine of 300 Phi­ lippine pesos plus costs and to imprisonment for three months and to suffer subsidiary impri­ sonment not to exceed one month in case of insolvency.

6. Manila, October 10th, 1941.

1 (a). Twenty-three small tin collapsible tubes, one amber-coloured bottle of about 60 cc. capacity; which upon analysis were found to contain a net weight of 60.7 gr. of prepared opium. The tin Lubes did not have any label or wrapper and did not bear any tax stamp, description, device or inscription to indicate the origin of manufacture. The bottle was labelled Chinka White Mixture, Eng Aun Tong, The Tiger Medical Hall, Singapore and Rangoon. 3. The Chief of the Customs Secret Service and his agents, while searching the steamship Benchrachan for any contraband, discovered in the Chinese crew’s quarters, occupied by Chinaman Chuy Kan, twenty-three small tin collapsible tubes and one amber-coloured bottle of about 60 cc, capacity, which upon analysis were found to contain a net weight of 60.7 grammes of prepared opium. The steamship, w'hich is British, left Hong-Kong on October 6th, arriving at Manila on October 9th. 4. A criminal complaint was filed with the City Fiscal Office against Chinaman Chuy Kan, but the Fiscal dropped the same for lack of evidence to warrant the prosecution.

7. Cebu City, November 4th, 1939.

1 (a). 284 tin tubes, 3% cm. long and 3.4 cm. in diameter, which upon analysis were found positive for opium. On one side of the tubes the mark “ North Borneo MCXXXIX ” was found, and on the reverse side the statement “ Packing Plant Singapore ”. The mark “ NB ” was also found on one end of the tubes. 3. On November 4th, 1939, plain-clothes men of the Cebu Secret Service arrested Jamalud Ben Ahad, a Moro, as he was entering the Nanking Restaurant, Cebu City, with a package under his arm ; the package was found to contain the above-mentioned tubes. 4. A criminal complaint for the illegal possession of opium was filed with the Municipal Court of Cebu against Jamalud Ben Ahad. The case is still pending. — 15 —

No. 1959. — Seizure at Pagadian, Zamboanga, Philippine Islands, on February 26th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. ReIeoe?pe ,9fiI 1 (a). Prepared opium : 79 grammes. Contained in two 1-tael O.C.S./Con . 26 . tins, one tin holding 30 grammes and the other 49 grammes net, Each tin was of the familiar “ Red Lion ” variety (Lion and Globe), similar in appearance to tins alleged to be packed and exported from Macao. 3. The opium was found by local authorities during a search of the premises of Tongsia Tan, a Filipino. 4. The case was remanded to the Court of First Instance at Zamboanga.

Note. — Seizures of prepared opium were also made in connection with the following cases, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings :

O.C.S. Conf. 1288 (1) under “ Raw Opium ” (two cases). ,, ,, 1253 (3) ,, ,. ,, (two cases). ,, 1292 (19)

Q u a n t it ie s s e iz e d of P r e p a r e d Op i u m . D ross a n d G um u se d fo r adulterating P r e p a r e d O p i u m , as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t :

Prepared Opium : Dross: 1940 1941 1940 1941 310 kg. 678 gr. 61 grammes 10 kg. 13 gr. 29 grammes and 1 kg. 356 gr. gross weight. Gum used by traffickers for adulterating prepared opium : 1940 4 kg. 397 gr.

3. MORPHINE

No. 1960. — Seizure at Rio de Janeiro on August 27th, 1940. Report communicated by the Brazilian Government, March 10th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Morphine : Five centimeter cubes, contained in three O.C.S./Conf.1294. ampoules, one of 1 cc. and the other two of 2 cc. 3. The National Drug Control Committee at Rio de Janeiro reported under date of March 10th, 1941, that, as the result of a search conducted at 911, 24 de Maio Street, Rio de Janeiro, on August 27th, 1940, three ampoules of morphine were seized. Pedro Tenorio de Lima, at whose residence these drugs were found, was arrested as being caught in the act. A Police record was drawn up.

No. 1961. — Seizures in Thailand on October 7th, November 16th, December 3rd, 1939, and between January 9th and July 30th, 1940. Report communicated by the Thai Government, February 5th and 14th, 1941. 1 (a). Morphine hydrochloride : 2 kg. 546 gr. Anti-opium tablets, containing morphine (percentage not known) : 63 tablets. For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1281.

Note. — A seizure of morphine was also made in connection with the following case, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings : O.C.S./Conf. 1287 (61), under “ Miscellaneous ”.

Q u a n t it ie s of M o r p h in e s e iz e d as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t :

Morphine : Morphine Sulphate Morphine Hydrochloride 1940 1940 1940 5 cc. 10 grammes 2 kg. 546 gr. - 16 —

4. HEROIN

No. 1962. — Seizures in the Shanghai International Settlement during the Fourth Quarter, 1940. Report communicated by the Shanghai Municipal Council, February 6th, 1941.

Reference : O.C.S./Conf. 12 76.

October 1th to 31sf, 1940. 1 (a). Heroin : 270 grammes (9% ounces), contained in 1,203 small packets. No marks. 2. Persons implicated : Mei Tatsu Ken, Ri Sei Y, Ishiro Yamane, Li To Kei, Kin Dai Kan, Kin Fu Jin. Cho Hei Ivo, Go Gyoda Sei, Jo Kan Shu, Cho Ko Koku, Boku No San, Kiao Vung Kei, So So So, Gyoko In Ho, Kin Kee Tatsu, Kin Tei San, Ri Tei Shuku, So Ki To, Lee Sho Luku, Ri Kaneko, all Koreans except Ishiro Yamane, Japanese. 3. The above-named heroin peddlers were arrested in possession of the above quantity of heroin as the result of fourteen raids, carried out by the Municipal Police and Japanese Consular Police, on clandestine selling-places in Louza, Sinza, Chengtu Road and Hongkew Districts. 4. Eleven of the above accused were ordered to pay fines ranging.from 20 to 100 Yen, the prosecution was suspended in the case of one accused, while four were still on remand at the Japanese Consular Court at the end of the year.

November 3rd to 28th, 1940.

1 (a). Heroin : 653 grammes (23 ounces) contained in 3,140 small packets. No marks. 2. Persons implicated : Kin Li Kan, Bun Go Ho, Kyo Jit su Iku, Boku Loh Kei, Kim Kei Shu, Hung Yoong Hong, Cho Hei Ko, Ken Nei Shan, Son Kei Shu, Ri KuShu, King Ah Woo, Kim Ei Shoku. M. Kanayoshi, Shin Zai Hitsu, Y. Shirakawa, M. Kuremoto, Z. Kanemoto. Ko Sei Gan, Kin Kei Shu. Tei Zeu Kyo, all Koreans except King Ah Woo, Chinese. 3. The above-named drug traffickers were arrested as a result of systematic visits to several known heroin-selling places in the Louza, Chengtu Road, Gordon Road, West Hongkew and Sinza Districts. 4. King Ah Woo was sentenced to imprisonment for three years and deprived of civil rights for the same period. Nine of the Koreans were ordered to pay fines ranging from 20 to 30 Yen, the prosecutions were suspended in the case of five others, while one was discharged and four were still on remand at the Japanese Consular Court at the end of the year.

December 1th, 1940. 1 (a). Heroin : 426 grammes (15 ounces), contained in six French letters and 12 packets concealed in a bed cover and among joss sticks. Five of the packets bore the trade mark of a “ Golden Chicken ”, 2. Persons implicated : Chu Tsui Ming, Huang Kyi ng Gee, Wong Yee Pong, Tseu Nyoh Ling, all Chinese. 3. The accused were arrested on Foochow Road while travelling in public ricshaw.-. A search of their personal belongings resulted in the finding of the heroin. They admitted having had the intention to transport it to Haimen for sale. 4. They were each sentenced to imprisonment for twelve years and deprived of civil rights for ten years.

December 19th lo 28th, 1940.

1 (a). Heroin : 149 grammes (5 1/i ounces) contained in 1,625 small packets. No marks. 2. Persons implicated : Mrs. S. Tsuzaki, Ryoichi Aoyama, Kyo Ei Kya, Li Hon Chu, Bin Hei Ju, Gon Ki Sei, Kin Ji Ho, Kin Zai Ryu, Ling Kei Lyo, Yin Jitsu Goku, Sai Dai Ko, all Koreans. 3. There were eleven cases of clandestine heroin-selling involving the arrest of as many Koreans in the Sinza and Hongkew districts for being in possession of the above quantity of heroin for sale. 4. These Koreans were still on remand in the Japanese Consular Court at the end of the year. No. 1963. — Seizure at Marseilles on December 24th, 1940. Report communicated by the French Government, February 4th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Heroin : 12 grammes in three packets. O.C.S./Conf.1255. One bottle of heroin solution for injections. One bottle of ether. One bottle of mercurochrome. Two hypodermic syringes with needles. 3. On December 24th, 1940, the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department carried out a search of the residence of a certain Marie Beisin, born on July 31st, 1906, at Seyssel (Ain) and her lover one Gûu Nguyen, born in 1906 in Tonkin, unmarried seaman, both living at 16, Rue du Figuier de Cassis, Marseilles. The couple had been reported as being engaged in the drug traffic. The operation led to the discovery of drugs and various instruments for the administration of drugs. In the room there was another woman named Anne Giboin. born on February 2nd, 1905, at Nice, who had in her handbag a packet containing about one gramme of heroin, which she admitted having bought from Gûu. and a hypodermic syringe. The enquiry did not reveal the source of the drugs seized. 4. The persons involved were handed over to the Examining Magistrate. No. 1964. — Seizure at Marseilles on January 28th, 1941. Report communicated by the French Government, March 3rd, 1941. Reference: 1 (a). Heroin : 5 grammes. In five small bags. Origin unknown. UA-. X UOÏ1I. Y'Z, i'Z . ° . . 3. On January 28th, 1941, acting on information received, officials of the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department arrested at the “ Anto ” Bar, Place de la Bourse, Marseilles, Joseph Antoine Natali, born on January 3rd, 1911, at Ajaccio, Corsica, son of Antoine Mathieu Natali (deceased) and Catherine Raffaelli, unmarried, without occupation, residing at No. 13 Rue Esperandieu. Marseilles, who had been reported to them as being a drug trafficker. He was found in possession of five small bags, each containing about 1 gramme of heroin. On being questioned, Natali stated that he had bought this drug in the Place Victor Gelu from a Chinaman whose identity he would not reveal. He asserted, furthermore, that the heroin found in his possession was intended for his own use. Investigations were actively pursued by the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department with a view to ascertaining the origin of the drug seized, but yielded no result, 4. Joseph Natali was handed over to the Marseilles Public Prosecutions Department on the charge of possessing and using drugs.

No. 1965. —- Seizures at Marseilles on February 3rd and 7th, 1941. Reports communicated by the French Government on March 17th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Heroin : 33 grammes. O.C.S./Conf.1286. Oil lamp for opium-smoking. 3. Following on the arrest of several drug addicts at Toulon, the 9th Regional Mobile Police Brigade at Marseilles, in pursuance of a letter from M. Brunet, Examining Magistrate at Toulon, proceeded to conduct investigations at Marseilles for the purpose of discovering and arresting an Annamite known as “Bachet ”, who was an habitual supplier of addicts at Toulon. As a result of the enquiry, it was ascertained that the person sought was no other than Nguyen Van Ba, alias “ Babouchet ”, born in 1902 at Sy (district of Thai Lai), son of Thi Thiep and Van Thuan, who had already been convicted three times for drug trafficking and who lived at No. 6, Rue Bonneterie, Marseilles. He was arrested on February 3rd, 1941, in the Place Victor Gelu, Marseilles, when it was found that he had in his possession two small bags each containing about one gramme of heroin. When being questioned, this trafficker stated that he had bought the drug from an Italian whose first name was “ Antoine Notwithstanding very active enquiries, however, it has not been possible to discover this person. Furthermore, during the enquiry, a woman named Antoinette Notardonato, wife of Risotto, born on February 19th, 1906, at Toulon (Var), daughter of Ange and Domenica Notardonato, stated that she bought a certain quantity of heroin from Nguyen Van Ba for her own use. The drug was handed to her by Nguyen Van Ba in a bar where tobacco is sold, situated opposite the Hospital at Marseilles. Acting on confidential information received from the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department specially concerned with the suppression of the drug traffic, the Public Prosecu­ tion Department at Marseilles conducted an investigation in regard to drug-trafficking charges against the owners of several bars. The following discoveries were made : A packet containing about one gramme of heroin and a small bag containing a white powder which, on analysis, proved to be glucose were found hidden under a linoleum-cover in room 2 of the furnished apartment house at No. 5, Place Victor Gelu, occupied by the Annamite Nguyen Van Hai, barman. Nguyen Van Hai, born in 1902 at Bieu (Tongking), son of Van Minh and Agi Thi Bâ, refused, notwithstanding close questioning, to reveal the origin of the drug discovered in his room. On February 7th, 1941, in the room which the owner of the bar and furnished apartment house, Elise Chabert, known as “ Zize ”, occupied with her lover Nguyen Van Lien, an Annamite, seven small bags containing altogether about 30 grammes of heroin were found hidden in an electric iron. In an adjacent room there was an oil-lamp for opium-smoking. Elise Chabert was born on March 28th, 1901, at Culoz, Ain, daughter of Dominique and Catherine Sartoris (both deceased), wife of Lucien Verlis from whom she was legally separated, without children. Her lover Nguyen Van Lien, 18 cook, unmarried, was born in 1902 at Phuco Que in the province of Ha-Dong, Tongking, son of Harp and Nhong. The investigation undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the origin of the drugs discovered at Elise Chabert’s residence yielded no results. It should be noted that this woman has for several years been known to the Central Service for the Suppression of the Drug Traffic as a notorious trafficker. Finally, another search was conducted in the “ Dégustation du Port ”, a bar situated at 36, Quai du Maréchal Pétain, managed by Dominique Salvarelli. On a marble table, in the kitchen adjacent to the public room, there was found a small rectangular packet, wrapped in white paper without any mark, containing about 3 grammes of a white powder which, on analysis, proved to be glucose. This substance was probably intended to be mixed with heroin. Dominique Salvarelli, born on November 9th, 1911, at Saint-Antonino, Corsica, son of Thomas Salvarelli and Marie Jeanne Acquaviva, and his wife née Josephine Ambrossio, born on March 28th, 1907, at Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, were questioned without results. 4. Antoinette Notardonato was charged with using and possessing drugs, but was provisionally released. Nguyen Van Ba was imprisoned at Toulon on a warrant issued by the Examining Magistrate. Nguyen Van Hai was imprisoned and handed over to the Marseilles Public Prosecutions Department. Elise Chabert and Nguyen Van Lien were handed over to the Marseilles Public Prosecution Department. Dominique Salvarelli and his wife were provisionally released.

No. 1966. — Seizures at San Francisco, California, on November 19th and 20th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 13th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Pure heroin : 533 gram m es (18.76 ounces). O.C.S./Conf.1258. Pure cocaine : 491 gram m es (17.28 ounces). The heroin was contained in five rubberised-silk bags and the cocaine in three such bags. Each of the bags was stamped, evidently with a rubber stamp, with a design showing a fixe-point star, within which were imperfect Japanese characters. The lower character might be translated as “ light ” or brilliance ”, while the upper charac­ ter, as written, was meaningless, but if executed slightly differently would mean “ the good man The two characters put together could then be translated “ The good, brilliant man ”. 3. In January 1939, information was received that Alexander Dashevsky, a naturalised American citizen of Russian birth, plumber on the s.s. President Cleveland, was engaged in smuggling quantities of narcotic drugs into the United States from the Far East, As a result, Dashevsky was kept under surveillance by Customs officers at Pacific coast ports upon the occasions of his frequent arrivals in the United States. On November 19th, 1940, on the arrival of the s.s. President Pierce at San Francisco, Customs officers noted that the name of Alexander Dashevsky appeared on the crew list of the vessel. Search of Dashevsky’s quarters aboard the ship resulted in the discovery of a small rubberised-silk bag, containing 160 grammes (5.64 ounces) of pure heroin concealed in an overcoat in his locker. Dashevsky admitted ownership of the narcotics and led officers to the places of concealment of two other lots of drugs packed in seven similar rubberised-silk bags. These two lots consisted of 372 grammes (13.11 ounces) of heroin and 491 grammes (17.28 ounces) of cocaine. The President Pierce of the American President Lines, Ltd. sailed from Manila on October 26th, 1940, via Hong- Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Honolulu. Dashevsky stated that he purchased the drugs from a Chinese in Shanghai whom he had met through introduction from a Chinese narcotic dealer in Hong-Kong from whom he had previously purchased narcotics ; that he paid gold §450 to the Shanghai Chinese ; that he owes a balance of approximately “ ten or twelve thousand Shanghai dollars ” ; that W'hile employed on the s.s. President Cleveland he smuggled into the United States three or four shipments of two or three tins of opium ; and that on the previous voyage of the President Pierce he smuggled ashore in the United States 483 grammes (17 ounces) of morphine. Dashevsky named two San Francisco Chinese as the receivers of the former shipments and a third Chinese as the person to whom he was to deliver the narcotic drugs under seizure. He also named the Chinese in Hong-Kong and Shanghai with whom he had previous dealing-. However, since this case is still under active investigation, the names of these persons will not be divulged at the moment. As soon as the investigation has progressed sufficiently, full information will be furnished to the British authorities at Hong-Kong. 4. On December 5th, 1940, Dashevsky wras sentenced to imprisonment for three years.

Note. — Photographs of the containers were forwarded with this report and are kept in the archives of the Secretariat,

Q u a n t it ie s of H e r o in s e iz e d as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t : 1940 1941 2 kg. 43 gr. 38 grammes Heroin Pills : 1940 4,160 pills. 19 —

5. COCAINE

No. 1967. — Traffic in Cocaine, involving Doctors and Chemists at Alexandria, Egypt, in November 1939. Report communicated by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Cairo, January 7th, 1941.

Reference : 3. Early in November 1939 information was received by the O.C.S./Conf.I2o4. Alexandria Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau Branch to the effect that the pharmacy “ Farouk ”, Bacos, Alexandria, was surreptitiously selling small quantities of cocaine at £E.5 per gramme to some foreign artistes and their friends. A watch was kept on the pharmacy, but this led to no results as it was learnt later that the delivery of the drugs was made personally by Abdel Mejid Mohd. Youssef, the manager of the pharmacy in question. The order for the drugs was received by telephone and the delivery generally took place in a “ garçonnière ” , Abdel Mejid was not known to have any outside accomplices and it was therefore suspected that the drugs came from the stock of the pharmacy and that, in order to cover up the deficiency, either the entries in the special register for narcotics prescription^ were faked or the stock itself was adulterated by the addition of a white powder. The Pharmacy Section of the Public Health Ministry was therefore asked to carry out an inspection. The result of the inspection was negative, as both the stock and the books were found in order, but the Pharmacy Section sent the prescriptions for cocaine to the Alexandria Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau Branch for further investigation. They were thirty-seven in number. The majority of these prescriptions bore the signature of Dr. Michel Moussali and were for an ointment for haemorrhoids. They were for 0.4 grammes of cocaine per prescription. Investigations revealed that, in the majority of cases, the names of the persons were fictitious or that they did not suffer from the alleged complaint, The matter was therefore submitted to the Native Parquet, w-hich, after thorough enquiry, ordered the arrest of Abdel Mejid as well as his assistant, a certain Adih Michel Xaggiar. and Dr. Michel Moussali. 4. The case was tried by the Alexandria Drugs Summary Native Court on December '23rd, 1940, with the result that Abdel Mejid Mohd. Youssef. Adih Michel Naggiar and Dr. Michel Moussali were each sentenced to imprisonment for one year, a fine of £E.200, and suspension from practising for one year to follow on the sentence of imprisonment. Two other doctors were also committed for trial, as well as two previous assistants of Abdel Mejid, but they were found not guilty and acquitted.

No. 1968. — Seizure at Calcutta on May 14th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom, in January 1941. 1 (a). Cocaine hydrochloride : 1 kg. 47 gr. Three packets each labelled " The Fujitsuru Brand ” and containing respectively 345 grammes (12 ounces 60 grains), 154 grammes j 12 ounces 200 grains) and 348 grammes (12 ounces 100 grains). Two labels were forwarded with the report and are kept in the archives of the Secretariat.

No. 1969. — Seizure at Calcutta on May 22nd, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom in January 1941. 1 (a). Cocaine hydrochloride : 1 kg. 393 gr. (49 ounces 25 grains). Four packets in a cardboard box wrapped up in gunny. For details of seizures under Nos. 1968 and 1969, see document O.C.S./Conf, 1296.

Note. — Seizures of cocaine w'ere also made in connection with the following cases, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings : O.C.S. Conf. 1305 (50) under “ Indian Hemp ”. ,, ,, 1258 (40) ,, “ Heroin ”. ,, ,, 1248 (63) ,, “ Miscellaneous

Q u a n t it ie s of C o c a in e s e iz e d as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t :

Cocaine : Cocaine Hydrochloride 1940 1940 580 grammes. 2 kg. 443 gr. 6. NARCOTIC PILLS

No. 1970. — Seizures in the Shanghai International Settlement, during the Fourth Quarter 1940. Report communicated by the Shanghai Municipal Council, February 6th, 1941. Reference : ^ The report states that no seizures of red pills were made during O.C.S./Conf. 12/6. the fourth quarter. 1940.

Note. — Seizures of pills were made in connection with the following cases, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings : O.C.S. Conf. 1319 (22) under " Prepared Opium ”.

7. INDIAN HEMP DRUGS

No. 1971. —Seizures of Indian Hemp Cigarettes in Chile in 1939. Information communicat­ ed by the Government of Chile in its Annual Report for 1939. Reference : 1 (a). Indian hemp cigarettes : Quantity not stated. C. 146. M. 134.1940. XI [O.C/A.R.1939/52]. 3. A case of illicit traffic in Indian hemp cigarettes was dealt with by the Sanitary Director in Valparaiso in 1939. 4. The guilt of the following merchants : Alfredo Silva Alvarez, Cleofas Garcia, Benito Pelayo, David Saldano Ortiz, and a Cuban Carmelo Davilo Tejeda (musician), was proved and they were fined §2,000.

No. 1972. — Destruction of Marihuana Plants and Seizures of Marihuana in Colombia in July, August and September 1939. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, September 8th, 1939, and November 13th, 1940. Reference : 1 (a). Marihuana : 1 kg. 500 gr. O.C.S./Conf.I2o6. \ quantity of marihuana cigarettes. 3. The Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare at Bogota reported that, in accordance with the provisions of a decree dated August 17th, 1939, five beds of marihuana found in the garden of M. Ricardo C.arpintero’s house, two at Pablo Mendoza’s house and one at Adriano de la Rosa’s house — i.e., eight in all — wTere burnt at Tubarâ ; that, since July 1940, prosecutions have been instituted in connection with various charges of trafficking in marihuana brought against the following persons : Enrique Simond, of Barranquilla, reported on July 4th by Mme. Maria del C. Molina to be a consumer and a trafficker, was arrested and searched and a cigarette found in his possession was seized. On being questioned, he stated that he had occasionally sold marihuana because he was driven to do so by hunger as he had been unemployed for nine months. He had a previous record, having been imprisoned a few months before for stealing cloth from the Obregon cloth factory. On August 11th, the national Police arrested Ana Dolores Nieto de Maury and Gregorio Antonio de Maury, of Barranquilla, after finding at their house in Hospital Road, between Bolivia Street and Campo Street, a bag containing 1 kg. 500 gr. of fine-cut marihuana and also some cigarettes, one of wrhich had been sold by Dolores Nieto to one of the detectives for 30 centavos. Seedlings, which seemed to be of the same plant, were also found at the Maurys’ house. Eleven cigarettes were found in the house of Felix Mendoza, of Tubarâ, Department of the Atlantic. The seizure was effected by agents of the Health Service of the Department of the Atlantic, Acting upon instruction from the Ministry of Health, the Botanical Institute at Bogota analysed samples of the plant seized and also of another plant which is said to be mixed with marihuana for the purpose of making cigarettes. This institute reported under date of August 31st, 1939, that “ the plant presented as marihuana, from Barranquilla, is undoubtedly a specimen of the hemp * cannabis sativa (L) var. indica Lamarck ’. The other plant, which is said to be mixed with marihuana, may be one of the graminaceæ. It may be used merely to mislead or perhaps because the bracts and the Lops contain a large quantity of lime, and calcium carbonate helps to set free the active principles of hemp ”. 4. Enrique Simond was sentenced to a fine of 50 pesos which he paid. The Maury- Nieto couple were handed over to the Assistant Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, who conducted the first interrogation of the accused and ordered that they should be provisionally detained in prison. The Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare at Bogota reported, under date of November 8th, 1940, that Gregorio Maury Nieto served a sentence of imprisonment from August 14th. 1939, to February 3rd, 1940. It had not yet been possible to apprehend his wife, Ana Dolores de Maury, who was charged with the same offence and whose arrest was ordered. The case of Felix Mendoza is being investigated.

No. 1973. — Seizure at Barranquilla, Colombia, on July 19th, 1940. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, January 27th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Marihuana : One cigarette. O.C.S./Conf. 1278. ' 3. The Sanitary Police of the Department of the Atlantic has transmitted a report to the effect that Alberto Miranda was arrested on July 19th, 1940, for being found in possession of one marihuana cigarette and a certain amount of cut tobacco. 4. Miranda was in detention at Barranquilla pending trial.

No. 1974. — Seizures at Barranquilla, Colombia, on November 24th and December 5th, 1940. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, Januarv 9th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Marihuana : Eighteen cigarettes. O.C.S./Conf.1271. v ' T , 3. The Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare at Bogota forwarded a report received from the Sanitary Police of the Department of the Atlantic to the effect that Miguel Segundo Mazzeo, Roberto E. Barros, Raul Contreras and Luis Felipe de la Espriella were arrested on November 24th because they had between the four of them fivemarihuana cigarettes ; that Fernando Jiménez and Walberto Altamar were arrested on December 5th for being in possession of thirteen cigarettes between the two of them. 4. The arrested persons have been imprisoned at Rarranquilla pending judgment,

No. 1975. — Seizure at Cairo on August 9th, 1940. Report communicated by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. Cairo, December 23rd, 1940. Reference : 1 (a). Hashish powder : 1 kg. 320 gr. Origin unknown. O.C.S. Conf. 1250. , 3. Upon information to the effect that Margos Baghdasarian, of Cairo, had formed a gang to deal in narcotics and that a couple of the members of that gang had approached a confidant known to Ezbekia Police Station with a view to selling a quantity of hashish in possession of the gang, the confidant was instructed to act as a buyer. The next day (August 9th, 1940) the confidant telephoned to say that the gang had offered him 1 kg. 320 gr. of hashish at the price of £E.33 and that the deal had to take place at the residence of the Armenian members of the gang in Ghattas Street, Shoubra. The pseudo-buyer was therefore given banknotes to the value of £E.33 after their numbers had been noted and told to go through with the deal. The pseudo-buyer got in touch with the two members of the gang at a café and then the trio proceeded to the above- mentioned house. About twenty minutes later, the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau force which was stationed in readiness nearby raided the place, after some resistance by one of the gang stationed at the doorway to give warning. The hashish seized was found inside a cardboard shoe-box. 4. On December 8th, 1940, Margos Baghdasarian, Sarkis Yacoubian, Emsak Keueh- kérian and Wahan Manoughian were tried by Cairo Narcotics Summary Court and sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months and a fine of £E.300 each, while Emam Ali Abdou and Ahmed Tantawi Hussein were sentenced by the same court to imprisonment for one year and a fine of £E.100 each.

No. 1976. — Seizures near Cairo on September 17th, 1940. Report communciated by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Cairo. February 4th, 1941. Reference : __ 1 (a). Opium : 603 grammes. O.C.S./Conf. 1259. Hashish : 879 grammes. Origin unknown. 3. On September 11th, 1940, a confidant of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau managed to make the acquaintance of a narcotics gang operating in Shebin El Kanater and Cairo. The confidant suggested to the intermediary of the gang to sell a quantity of drugs to a friend from Upper Egypt who was in Cairo. The intermediary accepted the proposal and asked the confidant to arrange the transaction. Accordingly, a Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau detective was given £E.85 in marked banknotes and instructed to pose as a narcotics buyer from the provinces and a friend of the confidant. A deal was arranged to take place at a café at Shoubra EI Belad on September 16th, 1940. After much waiting by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau force for the gang, which failed to turn up, the confidant was instructed to go to Shebin El Kanater to enquire into the reason for the non-appearance of the gang at Shoubra El Belad. On September 17th, the confidant __ oo telephoned that the gang wished the transaction to take place on the road between Kalioub and Nawa. The confidant and the pseudo-buyer were then sent off in one car and the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau force in another. At about 3.30 p.m. on the same day, the buyer gave the pre-arranged signal and the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau force rushed in upon the traffickers. In the melée three of them escaped, the principal member being caught with the money still in his hands. The next day the rest of the gang were rounded up. 4. On December 15th, 1940, the accused persons were tried by the Cairo Summary Narcotics Court and sentenced as follows : Mohamed Aly El Tanani to imprisonment for 30 months and a fine of £E,500 ; Hosni Mohamed El Tanani to imprisonment for 30 months and a fine of £E.500 ; El Sayed Mansour Ads to imprisonment for 18 months and a fine of £ E .300 ; Ahmed Khalil Nofal to imprisonment for 18 months and a fine of £E.300.

No. 1977. — Seizures in Palestine by Police Department from April to August 1940, and by Customs Department from March to June 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom, January 21st, 1941. Kg. Gr. 1 ! a). Raw opium : 40 471 Cocaine : 89 Hashish : 406 756 For details, see document O.C.S./Conf. 1305.

No. 1978. — Seizure in the village Kirazli in the Yalova District, Turkey. Report communicated by the Turkish Government, March 4th, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Hashish : 32 kg. 436 gr. 3. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare at Ankara reported under date of March 4th, 1941. that, as a result of the prosecution instituted against the drug addict Hikmet Sazli, the Istanbul Police were able to lay their hands on a band of illicit- traffickers in hashish and to seize 32 kg. 436 gr. of drugs, a large part of which was deposited in the village of Kirazli in the Yalova district on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. The band consisted of seven persons, including three women, two of them helping their husbands in carrying on the illicit trade. They were : Nuri Akbal, aged 28, of no occupation ; Hikmet Sazli, aged 37, merchant ; Hatice Inanli, aged 31, a relative of Ismail ; Leman Onadim, aged 20, the wife of Nuri ; Hüsniye Yeldaz, aged 39, the wife of Ahmet. Ismail and Ahmet have not yet been arrested. Another part of the drugs seized, also of considerable amount — viz., 11 kg. 450 gr.— was discovered at the residence of Hatice Yeldaz. The enquiry showed that the drugs deposited in the village of Kirazli were conveyed to Istanbul from time to time as sales were effected on the illicit market. This constitutes a further proof that there are still fairly large stocks of esrar (hashish) in the villages of this district.

No. 1979. — Seizure at New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 24th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 13th, 1941. n e^eee?ne > 10n, 1 (a)- Marihuana : 909 grammes (32 ounces, 9 grains). O.c.b./Loni.l264. The marihuana consisted of the dried, pulverised flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, in the form most frequently encountered in the United States. Mexican origin. No identifying marks or labels. 3. Acting on information that Samuel Stanford, Jamaican negro, British subject, crew member of the s.s. Allister of the British company J. S. Webster & Company, of Kingston, Jamaica, was selling marihuana to labourers on the docks at New Orleans, Narcotic and Customs officers on August 31st, 1940, purchased 26 grammes (400 grains) of bulk marihuana from him. When the Allister returned to New Orleans on September 14th, 1940, these agents purchased 13 grammes (197 grains) of bulk marihuana from Stanford. On September 24th, when the Allister again returned to New Orleans, 128 grammes (4% ounces) of marihuana were purchased from him. He was then arrested. Search of the vessel on that date resulted in the discovery of 4 grammes (68.38 grains) net of marihuana concealed under a pillow, and 738 grammes (26 ounces) net of marihuana were found behind a washstand mirror in an — 23 — unoccupied state-room. Stanford admitted that he was arrested at Coatzacoalcos on March 9th, 1940, for attempting to smuggle marihuana aboard this same vessel and was confined at Salina Cruz, Mexico.

4. On October 30th, 1940, Stanford was sentenced at New Orleans to imprisonment for three years.

No. 1980. — Seizures at New York City and Brooklyn, New York, from September 9th to December 30th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, March 12th, 1941.

Reference : 1 (a). Marihuana : 11 kg. 915 gr. (26 lbs. 3.48 oz.) net. O.C.S./Conf.l306. The marihuana consisted of the dried flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, in the form most frequently encountered in the United States. No marks or labels.

3. One package containing 53 grammes (1.87 ounces) of bulk marihuana was found by Customs officers at New York City on September 9th, 1940, concealed behind a wash­ basin in the firemen’s toilet of the s.s. Santa Lucia, upon the arrival of that vessel from Valparaiso. The Santa Lucia is an American vessel of the Grace Line. 18 grammes (0.63 ounce) of bulk marihuana were found on September 27th, 1940, by Customs officers at New York City, concealed behind a mirror in the crew’s quarters, forward, of the American s.s. Oriente, belonging to the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, which had arrived in port from Vera Cruz and Havana. On October 14th, a package containing 70 grammes (2.47 ounces) of bulk marihuana was found at New York City by ship’s company watchmen on a shelf above the entrance to the engine-room of the American s.s. Uruguay, of the American Republics Line, coming from Trinidad, while the next day 122 grammes (4.3 ounces) of bulk marihuana were found by Customs officers hidden under a table in the stewards’ recreation room on that steamer. 17 grammes (0.6 ounce) of bulk marihuana were found by Customs officers at Brooklyn, New' York, on October 20th, concealed behind a wash-basin in room 7, seamen’s quarters, of the American s.s. Challenge, belonging to the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, which had arrived in port from Progresse ; the same day 20 grammes (0.70 ounce) were found hidden outside of ice-boxes on the port side of that steamer, as wTell as a further 437 grammes (15.37 ounces) underneath a wash bowl in the engineer’s toilet, port side, 212 grammes (7.46 ounces) beneath a wash-bowl in the stewards’ toilet, and 460 grammes (16.19 ounces) concealed on an air duct, near the ceiling, in the crew alleyway, starboard side.

On October 21st, at New York City, Customs officers found 227 grammes (8.01 ounces) of bulk marihuana concealed behind a wash-basin in the firemen’s toilet, in the Grace Line s.s. Santa Lucia, which had sailed originally from Salaverry and touched at Callao, Mollendo, Arica, Antofagasta, Chanaral, Valparaiso, San Antonio, Talara, Guayaquil, Manta, Buena­ ventura, Colon and Barranquilla. In Brooklyn, Newr York, on October 22nd, Customs officers found 45 grammes (1.59 ounces) of bulk marihuana hidden behind a sink in the deck department toilet, and 446 grammes (15.7 ounces) concealed between a bulkhead and a wall locker in the cook’s room, and an additional 909 grammes (32 ounces) were also found hidden in the cook’s room of the s.s. Challenge. The same day two seamen found a small pillow and a paper package containing 219 grammes (7.71 ounces) bulk marihuana in a locker under a wooden grate on the s.s. Challenge. The marihuana was turned over to Customs officers by the chief officer of the vessel. On October 25th, in New York City, Customs officers, when searching the Ward Line steamer Oriente, arrived in port from Vera Cruz, found, concealed in a cigar-box on an angle beam in the sailors’ toilet, port side, forepeak, 41 grammes (1,45 ounces) of bulk marihuana and, hidden in a tin covered with old rags under the steering engine aft, 35 grammes (1.22 ounces) ; also 9 grammes (0.32 ounce) consisting of twenty cigarettes were found in a bucket under piles of rags, in the boatswain’s gear locker, on the starboard side of the forepeak, forward. On October 26th, at New Y'ork City, Customs officers arrested Bernade Figueroa, American citizen of Puerto-Rican birth, a crew member of the American Republics Line s.s. Argentina, as he left the vessel with a carton of personal effects, in the false bottom of which wras concealed 883 grammes (1 lb. 15.1 ounces) of bulk marihuana. The Argentina arrived in port from Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and other South-Arnerican ports. On October 27th, in Brooklyn, New Y'ork, Customs officers searching the Brazilian s.s. Cantuaria found 162 bottles of unmanifested assorted liquors and a 5-gallon tin, containing 25 packages of bulk marihuana, 1 kg. 23 gr. (2 lbs. 4 oz.), concealed in the engineer’s store-room. Two members of the crew were detained, but were released because of insufficient evidence. The Cantuaria arrived in port from Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Bahia, Pernambuco and Para. After the arrival of the s.s. Argentina at Pier 32, North River, New York City, on October 28th, Customs officers found 491 grammes (1 lb. 1.28 oz.) of bulk marihuana concealed between folded mattresses in a locker on “ C ” deck. On October 25th, at New York City, Customs officers found hidden in the crew working- alley, under stairs, in a rubbish bag, on the s.s. Oriente, 78 grammes (2.75 ounces) of bulk marihuana. Customs officers received information from local Police that two crew members, Raymundo Gonzalez and Eligio Rijos, of the s.s. Argentina had offered a resident of — 24 -

Brooklyn, New York, money to take delivery on board the ship of a quantity of marihuana and carry it to the home, in Brooklyn, of one of the seamen. The informant was permitted by Customs and Police officers to go aboard the Argentina at Morses Drydock, Brooklyn, to which point it had been moved from Pier 32, North River, N.Y., take delivery of 4 kg. 129 gr. (9 lbs. 1.35 oz.) of the marihuana and carry it ashore. Later that day (on October 28th), the informant, accompanied by the interested officers, carried the marihuana to the home in Brooklyn of Raymundo Gonzalez. When Customs officers entered the room of Gonzalez, he was in the act of handing the package to his wife, who on spying the officers immediately threw the package out of the window. However, it was recovered on the street by Police. The defendants stated that they purchased the marihuana in Santos for §8 per kilogramme. On November 12th, Customs officers, searching the Ward Line s.s. Mexico arrived in New York from Vera Cruz and Havana, found concealed in the second-class baggage room, aft, two packages of bulk marihuana totalling 110 grammes (3.88 ounces). Ship’s officers of the s.s. Uruguay, while en route from Trinidad to New York, found 115 grammes (4.05 ounces) of bulk marihuana in the locker of Charles Miller (American citizen), a wiper on the vessel. The marihuana was turned over to Customs officers, who questioned Miller, but he was later released. In New York City on November 27th, Customs officers found concealed in the steering-engine-room of the s.s. Curaca arrived from South-American ports via the Canal Zone, one box of broken marihuana cigarettes, one envelope and one tin totalling 52 grammes (1.83 ounces) of bulk marihuana. Four marihuana cigarettes, 3 grammes (0.1 ounce) were found by Customs officers at New York City, on December 2nd, in the pocket of Antonio Medina, wiper on the Grace Line s.s. Santa Lucia, which vessel had arrived from South-American ports. Medina stated that he purchased a quantity of bulk marihuana in Guayaquil, Ecuador ; that he made six cigarettes from the marihuana and gave two cigarettes to a fellow crew member, Philip Torres. Search of Torres’ effects revealed the two cigarettes in his baggage. The defendants are being held for prosecution. Customs officers searching the United States Army transport American Legion arrived in New York from Colon, found on December 17th in the bath steward’s linen locker on “ B ” deck, aft, a leather bag containing five packages of bulk marihuana weighing 1 kg. 172 gr. (41.29 ounces) net, and three marihuana cigarettes weighing 3 grammes (0.1 ounce) net. William Henry Matthews, the bath steward, owner of the bag, was arrested, but denied knowledge of the marihuana. He is being held for prosecution. Upon the arrival in Brooklyn, New York, December 21st, of the American s.s. Pacific coming from Cape Town, Customs officers searched seaman Heriberto Aravena, naturalised American citizen of Chilian birth, and found concealed under his shirt 14 grammes (0.51 ounce) of bulk marihuana. Later that day they found under the chain locker-grating a glass jar holding 68 grammes (2.4 ounces) net of tightly packed marihuana and, under a floor plate in a bathroom, another glass jar containing 43 grammes (1.5 ounce) of tightly packed marihuana. Aravena disclaimed any knowledge of the marihuana in the jars. He stated that he bought the marihuana found on his person in Africa. On December 29th, Customs searchers found 381 grammes (13.3 ounces) bulk marihuana concealed under a hawser of the Ward Line steamer Mexico, which arrived in New York from Vera Cruz and Havana. Customs officers, searching the Grace Line s.s. Santa Clara on December 30th, upon her arrival in New York from South America, found 10 grammes (0.35 ounce) of bulk marihuana on a ledge in the shaft alley.

4. Bernade Figueroa was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and one day. On November 13th, 1940, Baymundo Gonzalez was sentenced to imprisonment for three years, while, on the same date, Eligio Rijos received a sentence of eighteen months.

No. 1981. —- Seizures at El Paso, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio and Ysleta, Texas, Calexico and El Centro, California, between September 4th and December 22nd, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, April 10th, 1941. o ep8oe^ e : 1 (a). Marihuana : 73 kg. 4 gr. (160 lbs. 10 oz.), consisting of ■ J' -/Conf. 1290. the dried, pulverised flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, in the form most frequently encountered in the United States. No marks or labels.

3. Eduardo Espinoza, Mexican, was arrested at El Paso, Texas, on September 4th, 1940, after he had smuggled 312 grammes (11 ounces) of marihuana into that port from Mexico. Since investigation disclosed that the marihuana was to be shipped to another Mexican in Los Angeles, California, 14.2 grammes (half-an-ounce) of the drug was permitted to proceed to its destination by express. On September 12th, when Roger Hernandez, Mexican, called for the package, he wras arrested by Customs officers at Los Angeles. His associate, Alfonso Gallegos, Mexican, was likewise arrested. On the arrival of Martin Ortiz, Mexican, at El Paso from Juarez, Mexico, on September 23rd, 1940, Customs officers found five marihuana cigarettes, weighing 4 grammes (60 grains) in the waistband of his trousers. On October 23rd, 1940, Customs patrolmen arrested Juan de Dios Lozano, Mexican, at El Paso, with 4 grammes (67 grains) of bulk marihuana and 1 gramme (8 grains) of marihuana seed in his possession, after he had wraded the Rio Grande from Juarez. This alien had been previously deported to Mexico on May 14th. Manuel T. Miles, American citizen, was arrested by Customs officers at Calexico, California, on October 29th, 1940, when he attempted to smuggle six marihuana cigarettes, weighing 6 grammes (93 1ji grains) into Calexico from Mexicali, Mexico, concealed under the rear seat of his automobile. Cletus Hanner, American, was arrested by Customs officers at El Paso, Texas, on November 3rd, 1940, when he attempted to smuggle thirteen marihuana cigarettes, weighing 8 grammes (130 grains), concealed in his coat pocket, into El Paso from Juarez, Mexico. Acting on information, Customs officers at Calexico, California, on November 4th, searched Howard <>wews, American, as he entered the United States from Mexicali, Mexico, and found two and a-half marihuana cigarettes, weighing 2 grammes (37 1/4 grains), concealed in his shirt pocket. Jesus Olivarez, a juvenile Mexican citizen, appeared to be under the influence of marihuana when he entered the United States at El Paso, Texas, from Juarez, Mexico, on November /th, 1940. Search of his person disclosed that he had a sack containing 16 grammes (249 grains) of bulk marihuana concealed inside the waistband of his trousers, under his shirt, when Dominick Amato and Peter Marcello, American citizens, entered the United States at Laredo, Texas, from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on November 8th, 1940, immigration officers found 60 kg. 889 gr. (2,144 ounces) of bulk marihuana in four sacks concealed in the automobile driven by Marcello. The case was turned over to Customs agents for prosecution. The prisoners" are residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, and are notorious there as marihuana peddlers. Mike Garcia, Sam and Oscar Garza and Roger Gonzales, Mexican citizens, were arrested by San Antonio, Texas, Police on November 15th, 1940, and turned over to Customs officers when it was discovered that they had 103 grammes (3 5/s ounces) of bulk marihuana in their possession which had been smuggled into the port of Laredo, Texas, from Mexico. Two persons responsible for this smuggling are fugitives. Lorenzo Cobos, American citizen, was arrested at El Paso. Texas, on November 16th, 1940, when he attempted to smuggle 47 grammes (719 grains) of bulk marihuana from Juarez, Mexico, wrapped m a handkerchief and tied around his waist. He stated that he purchased the marihuana m Juarez for one dollar. He has a previous criminal record. Foderico Cantu and Ramon Perez, Mexican citizens, attempted to smuggle 5 kg. 226 gr. (184 ounces) of bulk marihuana into the United States from Mexico by carrying it across the Rio Grande. They were apprehended by Customs officers at McAllen, Texas, on November 27th, 1940. On November 29th, 1940, Filomeno Sandoval. Mexican citizen, was arrested by immigration officers at Mercedes Texas, about two miles north of the Rio Grande in possession of 128 grammes (4% ounces) of bulk marihuana. Since it was not felt that the prosecution could successfully establish that the defendant smuggled the marihuana from Mexico, the case was turned over to btate authorities for prosecution. On November 30th, 1940, / grammes (102 grains; of bulk marihuana were found by deputv sheriffs concealed in the home of Luis Arroyo, well-known Mexican, smuggler at Ysleta, Texas. Luis Altimirano, Manuel Rodriguez and Ignacio Dominguez, vo°ung Mexican street singers, were arrested by immigration officers at El Paso, Texas, "on December 9th, 1940, as they attempted to enter the United States illegally by wading the Rio Grande. The following day, while the prisoners were m jail, examination of a o-uitar which one had carried disclosed that there were sixty-one marihuana cigarettes, weighing 24 grammes (366 grains), concealed therein. The seizure was turned over to Customs officers. Francisca Gutierrez, Mexican woman, was arrested by Customs officers at Hidalgo, Texas on December 14th. 1940, after she entered from Mexico and examination of her person by a Customs inspectress disclosed that she had 298 grammes (10% ounces) of bulk marihuana concealed under her clothing. She claimed that she had purchased the marihuana m Reynosa, Mexico, from the brother-in-law of her common-law husband who resides in McAllen, Texas. The Mexican authorities have been advised. Percy Harding, Sam W. Parker, Lewis Estus, Jr Clarence Turner and Joseph Chester. American negro soldiers, were arrested on December 15th, 1940, by Customs officers at Nogales, Arizona, as they entered from Nogales,JMexico, in an automobile with thirty-eight marihuana cigarettes, weighing 50 grammes (1.7o ounce) concealed therein. Customs patrolmen at Douglas, Arizona, arrested Clarence Brown, American negro, on December 15th, 1940, when it was found that he had a package containing 44 grammes (685 grains) of bulk marihuana concealed on his person. Brown stated that he purchased the marihuana at Agua Prieta, Mexico, and that he intended to sell it to soldiers at Fort Huachuca Arizona. When the American oil screw Sportsman, E. W. Bartell, master and owner, entered San Diego, California, on December 18th, 1940, with a consignment of lobsters, Customs officers found a tobacco tin, containing 283 grammes (9 ounces, 442 grains) of marihuana on a ledge over the bunks in the wheelhouse. Captain Bartell admitted ownership and stated that he purchased the marihuana from a Mexican m Ensenada, Mexico, about, a vear ago, in the belief that it was Mexican tobacco. He added that he smoked the marihuana only on such occasions as his supply of American tobacco was exhausted. 909 grammes (32 ounces) of bulk marihuana were found on December 21st, 1940, by Customs patrolmen on the streets of El Paso, Texas, during the course of an investigation. A resident of El Paso, Texas, found a paper carton containing 4 kg. 544 gr. (160 ounces) of bulk marihuana on a street on the outskirts of the city on December 21st, 1940. Ownership could not be ascertained. Vicente Heredia and Miguel R. Cruz, Mexicans, were stopped at El Centro, ■26 —

California, by immigration patrol inspectors on December 22nd, 1940, while en route in Cruz s automobile from Mexicali, Mexico, to Brawley, California. Heredia attempted to 5 PLC^aix contf mm& "28.4 grammes (1 ounce) of bulk marihuana in the upholstering or the car, but the package was blown out of a hole in the material by the wrind Heredia admitted that he purchased the marihuana in Mexicali and smuggled it across the boundary line at a point about %-mile east of Calexico, California. Alfonso Gallegos and Roger Hernandez were each sentenced to imprisonment for nine months, the case against Eduardo Espinoza is still pending. Martin Ortiz, Juan de uios, Manuel T Miles, Howard Crwews, Jesus Olivarez, Dominick Amato, Peter Marcello, Mike Garcia, Sam and Oscar Garza, Roger Gonzales, Lorenzo Cobos, Luis Arroyo, Luis Altimirano, Manuel Rodriguez. Ignacio Dominguez, Percy Harding Sam W Parker, Lewis Estus, Jr , Clarence Turner. Joseph Chester, Clarence Brown, Vicente Heredia and Miguel R. Cruz will be prosecuted. Cletus Hanner, Foderico Cantu and Ramon Perez are being held for action of the Grand Jury. Filomeno Sandoval was sentenced to imprison- men, for two years on December 24th, 1940. The case against Francisca Gutierrez is still under investigation Captain E. W. Bartell was arraigned and released on bond, pendin* action of the Grand Jury. 8

No. 1982. Seizure at San Pedro, California, on November 15th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America March 12th, 1941.

0.cese/Conf.l274. Marihuana : 71 grammes (2% ounces) net, in bulk. Lontamed m a small blue paper bag, bearing a red label readme BOMFIM — Industrie Brasilera The marihuana consisted of the dried, pulverised flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, m the form most frequently encountered in the United States. 3 On November 15th, 1940, during a routine search by Customs officers of the American s.s., J. L. Luckenbach at San Pedro, California, 71 grammes of marihuana were found concealed m the pocket of a coat hanging m the locker assigned to Garland Reynolds Hart, American citizen, crew member of the vessel. Hart admitted ownership of the marihuana, stating that lie purchased it m Brazil while serving as a member of the crew of the American s.s Fluinq T j ; that he left the Flying Fish at San Francisco in October 1940 and signed on the J. L. Luckenbach of the Luckenbach Line in San Francisco on November 13th 1940 taking the manhuana from the Flying Fish to the J. L. Luckenbach ; the steamer left New York City October 29th, 1940, arriving at San Pedro November 13th, via Balboa. 4. On December 3rd, 1940, Hart was fined $100 and placed on probation for two years.

No. 1983. — Seizures at Los Angeles, California, ex the “ Norfolk Maru ”, on October 8th, 1940, and at Boston, Massachusetts, ex the “ Nozima Maru ”, onOctober 25th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941.

O CT/Conf 1269 , 1 (a)' Cannabis seed : 7 kg. 357 % gr. (16 lbs. 3 oz.). No marks * ' or labels. , . , „ 3- One paper bag, containing 6 kg. 903 gr. (15 lbs. 3 oz.) net of cannabis seed were found by Customs officers at Los Angeles, California, in the crew’s quarters ot the Norfolk Maru of the Japanese company Osaka Syosen Kaisha. The Norfolk Maru saded from Guayaquil on August 11th, 1940, and arrived at Los Angeles on October 8th, 1940, via Lallao and Valparaiso. 454.5 grammes (1 pound) of cannabis seed were found manifested with dry vegetables on the Nozima Maru of the Japanese company Nippon Yu sen Kaisha on its arrival in Boston on October 25th, 1940. The chief steward of this vessel stated that ne seeds were used aboard as a condiment in the preparation of rice and vegetables1 The r v t ma r f U left Yokohama on September 20th, 1940, via San Francisco", Los Angeles, Balboa, Colon, and New York City. 5

No. 1984. — Seizure at Savannah, Georgia, on December 8th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. aGese/Conf.l267. U ^ a r m T ^ * : 9.2 f a™ (3 1U ounces). the cannabis consisted of the compressed resin of the plant and was dark brown in colour, being similar in appearance to what is known as ■ Charas m British India, and as “ Hashish ” in Egypt and the Near East. The cannabis was wrapped in glass and tinfoil, of the type used in packing cigarette tins, -l i o marKs or ia.oeis. 3. Customs officers at Savannah, acting on information that large quantities of heroin and opium were concealed aboad the s.s. Black Condor of the American steamship company Diamond Line, made a most thorough search of the vessel upon its arrival in port at nnri, / F°r previous reference to occasional use of cannabis seeds as a condiment as for exemole “ Sushi ” a popular Japanese dish, see document C.72.M.69.1941.XI [0,C.S.300(S)L page 29° n ” 1917 f0r exemPle bushl - a — 27

Savannah on December 8th, 1940, with the result that two small slabs of compressed cannabis resin, weighing 92 grammes, were found concealed behind a fire extinguisher. The Black Condor had left Calcutta on October 18th for Savannah via Cape Town, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Ownership of the drug was not ascertained.

No. 1985. — Seizure ex the s.s. “ Republic ” at Honolulu on September 26th and 27th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 6th, 1941. Reference : ^ 1 (a). Marihuana : 26.63 grammes (409.67 grains). O.C.S./Conf.l262. The marihuana consisted of the dried, pulverised flowering tops and leaves of the cannabis plant, in the form most frequently encountered in the United States. No marks or labels. 3. The seizure developed from the observation of two narcotic agents in Honolulu who noticed that Nathan Becker, an American citizen, was obviously under the influence of marihuana. It was ascertained that he was a crew member of the United States Army transport Bepublic, which left Corpus Christi, Texas, on September 23rd, 1940, and arrived at Honolulu on September 26th, 1940, via the Panama Canal Zone. The agents, accompanied by Customs officers, went aboard the transport and found concealed in Becker’s locker a match­ box containing three partially smoked marihuana cigarettes, weighing 0.34 grammes (5.09 grains) net ; one tobacco tin containing 7.72 grammes (118.81 grains) net of bulk marihuana ; one tobacco tin containing negligible fragments of bulk marihuana, net weight not ascertained ; and one tin containing marihuana seed, weighing 81.58 grammes (285.77 grains). Becker admitted that he obtained the marihuana when his ship wras in the Panama Canal Zone. He has a previous narcotic record. 4. Becker is being held for prosecution.

Note. — Seizures of Indian hemp were also made in connection with the following cases, which included seizures of other drugs and which have been summarised under corresponding headings : O.C.S. Conf. 1285 (12) under Raw Opium ,, ,, 1265 (28) under “ Prepared Opium ,, 1248 (63) under “ Miscellaneous ”.

Q u a n t it ie s of I n d ia n H e m p D ru gs se iz e d as r e p o r t e d to t h e S e c r e t a r ia t :

Cannabis: Cannabis: Charas : Cigarettes: 1939 1940 1940 Various. 1 kg. 500 gr. 86 kg. 188 gr. 3 kg. 686 gr.

Hashish : Cannabis Seed : 1940 1941 1940 408 kg. 955 gr. 22 kg. 436 gr. 7 kg. 358 gr.

8. MISCELLANEOUS

No. 1986. — Theft of various narcotic drugs discovered at Valparaiso, Chile, in 1939. Information communicated by the Government of Chile in its Annual Report for 1939. Reference : The Chilian authorities report th at, during the year 1939, the C. 146.M. 134.1940.XI following thefts of narcotic drugs were discovered at Valparaiso in [O.C./A.R. 1939/52.] connection w ith clearing the Customs. The thefts were reported to the authorities by the interested firms : Dropelmann Bros.1: 700 gr. Morphine hydrochloride. 300 gr. Codeine. 1,100 gr. Opium powder. Reported by the Sanitary Director in Valparaiso on September 5th, 1939.

1 This case has already been reported, see documents O.C.S./Conf. 1023 and C.14.M.12.1940.XI [O.C S.300(o)J, page 4, No. 1622. — 28 —

Lobenstein & Schalscha : 60 tubes of 10 tablets of Dicodide. 200 tubes of 10 tablets of Dilaudide. 300 tubes of 20 tablets of Paracodine. Reported by the firm in question on June 22nd, 1939. Bayer Weskot & Cie : May 16th. 1939) : 1 bottle of Morphine hydrochloride. 20 bottles of 10 grammes of Codeine. 20 bottles of soft Extract of opium. 5 bottles of Pure opium.

“ Centrale d'achats du Comité central de bienfaisance ” : 40 bottles of 50 grammes of Codeine.

In spite of investigation of the different cases and enquiries at the Customs, the guilty persons were not discovered or the drugs in question recovered. It is possible that the thefts took place in transit and before the Customs took charge of the goods.

No. 1987. — Excessive prescription of narcotic drugs by Dr. Ernesto Garcia Prieto, Bogota, Colombia. Report communicated by the Colombian Government . January 16th, 1941. Reference : .3. The Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare at Bogota O.C.S./Conf. 1-280. reported, under date of January 14th, 1941. that, in the course of an investigation which was conducted by the Cundinamarca Sanitary Police and which started on May 21st, 1940. in various pharmacies at Bogota, it was ascertained that Dr. Ernesto Garcia Prieto, Doctor of Medicine, aged 54, born at Sesquilé, residing at Bogota, where he practises his profession, had, in a short space of time, issued fifteen prescriptions for a total of 87 ampoules of eucodal, 0.02, for Mme. A. M. K., and 60 prescrip­ tions for narcotic drugs for different persons. On being questioned, Dr. Garcia admitted that all the prescriptions shown to him were his own and also stated that he had not applied for the necessary authorisation to prescribe drugs in extra-therapeutic doses. 4. Dr. Garcia was fined 200 pesos and instructions were given to the effect that a copy of the proceedings should be transmitted to the Central Committee on Medical Qualifications, in accordance with the provisions of Article 22 of Decree 1377 of 1930. Instructions were also given with a view to ascertaining any responsibility that may have been incurred by the “ Drogueria International ” at Bogota for infringement of the relevant paragraph of Article 30 of Resolution 313 of 1937.

No. 1988. — Seizure at the “ Farmacia Charry ”, Barranquilla, Colombia. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, December 27th, 1940. Grammes Reference : 1 (a). Powdered opium : 10.1 O.C.S./Conf.1287. Fluid opium : 22 Tincture of opium : 95 Morphine sulphate : 9.6 3. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Bogota transmitted, under date of December 27th 1940, a report from the Colombian Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare to the effect that the Sectional Sanitary Police Inspectorate of the Department of the Atlantic had seized the above-mentioned drugs at the Farmacia Charry at Barranquilla, because they contained impurities.

No. 1989. — Penalties imposed in Colombia in 1940 in various cases of infringements of the provisions regulating the trade in and use of drugs. Beport communicated by the Colombian Government. January 22nd, 1941. Reference : 3. The Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare at Bogota, O.C.S./Conf.1279. transmitted, under date of January 21st, 1941, a report from the Health Directorate at Antioquia to the effect that, during the year 1940, the following cases were decided : 4. Martin Quintero and Abel Posada, pharmacists of the Farmacia Uribe Arcila, Medellin,for infringement of Article 23 of Decree 1377 of 1930. Quintero was fined 100 pesos and Posada 50 pesos. They discharged these penalties in the form of labour on public works. Alberto Munoz Duque, steward on the_ Carrelera at Alar, for infringement of Article 11 of Resolution 133 of 1933. He was fined 50 pesos and paid the fine in cash. The proprietor of the Farmacia Medellin of the City of Medellin, for infringement of Article 10 of Resolution 84 of 1932. He was fined 50 pesosand paid the fine in cash. No. 1990. — Seizures in the Department of Cauca, Colombia. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, October 29th, 1940. Grammes Reference : 1 (a). Cocaine hydrochloride : 2.61 O.C.S./Conf. 1248. Dionine : 0.43 Laudanum : 687 Indian hemp : 156 Codeine : 0.3 Extract of coca : 460 Tincture of opium : 580 Cocaine and adrenalin : 10 ampoules Sedol : 4 3. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Bogota has reported that the Sectional Sanitary Police Inspectorate of the Department of Cauca seized : in the Municipality of Silvia from Alfonso Lopez, owner of a general store known as “ Popular ”, because he was not authorised to deal in these substances, 2.61 grammes of cocaine hydrochloride, 0.43 grammes of dionine, 160 grammes of laudanum and 156 grammes of Indian hemp ; in the Municipality of Piendamo from Daniel Jonas Vivas, for the same reason, 0.3 grammes of codeine, 460 grammes of extract of coca ; in the Municipality of Timbio from Dolores v. de Prada, also because this person held no licence, 125 grammes of laudanum ; in the Municipality of Bolivar from Roque Castro, owner of the “ Roque Castro ” Pharmacy, who is a licensed pharmaceutical chemist, but whose licence to sell narcotic drugs had not, been renewed since 1928, 402 grammes of laudanum, 580 grammes of tincture of opium, 10 ampoules of cocaine and adrenalin and 4 ampoules of sedol.

No. 1991. — Discovery of forged prescriptions presented at the “ Drogueria Cajiao ”, Bogota, Colombia, on January 13th, 1941. Report communicated by the Colombian Government, January 30th, 1941. Reference : 3. On January 13th, 1941, the pharmaceutical chemist of the O.C.S./Conf.1300. “ Drogueria Cajiao ” , Bogota, M. Marco A. Barrera, informed the Inspector of the Cundinamarca Sanitary Police that two persons had that day brought to the above-mentioned pharmacy two forms bearing the printed heading of Dr. Juan F. Martinez Angulo, prescribing 15 c.c. and 5 c.c. respectively of Sydenham’s laudanum. Barrera had dispensed these prescriptions with only 5 c.c. and, as the persons referred to told him that they would continue to bring similar prescriptions every day, he suspected that a forgery was involved and decided to communicate with Dr. Martinez Angulo. The latter informed him that he had not signed the prescriptions in question and added that the heading which appeared thereon was not his. He stated that the sheet of paper used came from a stock which he had ordered to be printed at the “ Belgica ” Printing-works, Cundinamarca, but which he had not used because he did not like the way the printing had been done. 500 sheets were printed and he kept these in his own possession. The sheets used by the addicts must have been some other sheets which came perhaps from the above- mentioned printing-works. On January 14th, one of the previous day’s visitors came to the pharmacy with two prescriptions made out on similar paper and showing the same characteristics as the prescriptions presented on the 13th. This person, Jesus Rincon, a farmer, born at Bogota in 1916, unmarried, was arrested by a Police officer who was called in for the purpose, but he was suddenly assaulted by the addict, who snatched the prescriptions from him in order to tear them up. Rincon, an inveterate drug addict, is the son and brother of addicts. Formerly, he used morphine and became accustomed to take as much as 0.4 gramme a day. He stated that at present, in view of the impossibility of obtaining this drug, since no smuggled supplies are available (or at all events, as he said, the small quantities to be found are at impossible prices), he has recourse to laudanum, which can be purchased more easily in the pharmacies. 4. The matter was handed over to the Judge of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Court and the Judge ordered that the accused person was to be detained in an official sanatorium with a view to his disintoxication.

No. 1992. — Seizure at Port Said on May 16th, 1940. Reports communicated by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Cairo, December 11th and 24th, 1940. Reference : 1 (a). Poppy plants : 132. O.C.S./Conf. 1251. . , , 3. On May 16th, 1940, a representative of the Ministry of Agricul­ ture reported at the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau Port Said Branch that he had discovered in a garden in Port Said a number of poppy plants which he said were of Japanese origin. This garden is attached to a house which is the property of the Suez Canal Company and is occupied by a certain Basile Carastathis, a Greek subject. A Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau officer, with the Agricultural representative, went to this garden and found the poppy plants in blossom. Some of the plants had been topped and were exuding a glutinous matter (opium). Eight branches of the plants bearing fruit, which were cut about two days previously, were found in a drawer of a cupboard placed m the garden. Also, in a tin, 25 poppy plants recently cut were found. — 30 —

4. The case was tried by the Mixed Court on December 5th, 1940, with the result that Carastathis and his wife were sentenced to pay a fine of P.T. 50 and to pay one-fifth of the expenses of the Court.

No. 1993. — Seizures ex the “ Hikawa Maru ” at Seattle, Washington, on September 24th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 26th, 1941. Reference : ^ 1 fa). Concentrated opium solution (Pantopon) : 11 centigrammes. O.C.S./Conf. 1260. Codeine phosphate : 11 centigrammes. The concentrated opium solution was contained in eleven ampoules of 1 centigramme each, packed in one box, while the codeine phosphate was similarly packed in one box containing eleven ampoules of 1 centigramme each. The cardboard box containing the opium solution bore a label bearing inscription “ Concentrated opium — 0.02 gm. in 1 c.c. Division of Narcotics, National Hygiene Uaboratory, Nanking ”, while the box containing the codeine phosphate bore a similar label, with the exception that, instead of mentioning the opium solution, it bore the following words “ Codeine phosphate — 0.03 gm. in 1 c.c. ”1. 3. The drugs were declared in the baggage declaration of an incoming woman passenger on the Hikawa Maru, of the Japanese company Nipj>on Yusen Kaisha. This steamer sailed from Yokohama on August 28th, 1940, and arrived at Seattle, Washington, September 24th, 1940, via Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Shimizu and Vancouver. The passenger declared that the drugs were intended for her personal use. 4. No arrest was made and no fine imposed.

No. 1994. — Seizure at Nogales 'Arizona: on October 22nd, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, March 21st, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). “ Veganin ”. Tablets containing 1.7% codeine : 29 tablets, O.C.S./Conf. 1297. weighing 17 gram m es (0.61 ounce) net. The tablets were contained in ten small paper envelopes and a glass vial, the envelopes holding two tablets each and the vial nine tablets, each of which was marked “ Veganin-Anti-Neuralgica ”, and bore statements indicating they were the product of La Campana Company, Mexico City ”, and “ Godecke Sc Company, Berlin ”. 3. After being warned by a Customs inspector at Nogales, Arizona, that this medicine " Veganin ” contained narcotic drugs and that its entry into the United States was prohibited, Frank Jones returned to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and enlisted the services of John G. Brown for the purpose of smuggling the drugs into the United States. After the illegal importation was accomplished, Jones was met and picked up by Rose Carter in her automobile and, when they attempted to leave town, they were stopped by Customs patrolmen, and the drugs found in the glove compartment of the automobile and on Jones’ person. Brown was arrested on October 30th, 1940. It is understood that Jones, at least, is a drug addict, and that he and Mrs. Carter proceeded to Nogales, Mexico, from Tucson, Arizona, for the express purpose of securing the codeine tablets. Veganin tablets may be purchased in Nogales, Mexico, in small paper envelopes, containing two tablets each, and in glass vials containing twenty tablets each. The envelopes and vials each bear the following labels : “ Veganin-Gelonida Antineuralgica- Hecho en Mexico, D.F., La Campana, S.A. Tolsa No. 8 Représentantes de los Manufactureras Goedecke & Co. Berlin ”, On one end of the paper cartons holding the glass vials, the label states that the tablets are made in Mexico by La Campana Company, while, on the other end. the label states that they are made in Germany by Goedecke (Godecke) Sc Company. During recent years, there have been innumerable technical seizures of Veganin tablets, principally at the port of New York City, the preparation occasionally being referred to as “ Gelonida Anti-neuralgica ”, or as “ Anti-neuralgica Tablets ”. In the past year, there have been at the port of New York alone over two hundred seizures of these tablets. A recent seizure was made at New York of Veganin tablets shipped by mail from Mexico. Other seizures have been effected at Los Angeles and Laredo and Hidalgo, Texas, the tablets bearing the same labels as are described above. It has been noted in the cases of the seizures made at New York that “ Veganin ”, “ Veganine ” or “ Anti-neuralgica ” tablets are manufactured in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Mexico by the following firms : Godecke Sc Company, Berlin and Leipzig. M. Geroult, France. A. Angiolini, Italy. W. R. Warner Sc Co., London. H. Feinstein, Switzerland. Substantia A.S., Czecho-Slovakia. Note that, on the German label, the firm name is spelled “ Godecke ”, while, on the Mexican label, the spelling is “ Goedecke ”, The case discussed in this report is the first instance of a criminal case resulting from a seizure of Veganin tablets. A copy of this report is being transmitted to the Mexican authorities. 4. Jones, Brown and Rose Carter are being held for action of the Grand Jury.

1 A photograph of this label is kept in the archives of the Secretariat. — 31 —

No. 1995. — Seizure at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 17th, 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 21st, 1941. Reference : 1 (a). Chinese Cough Pills : 20 grammes (0.71 ounce) net. The O.C.S./Conf.1273. pills contained 0.04% anhydrous morphine and were put up in two bottles. The pills were the familiar “ Dr. Tang Shih Yee ” cough pills. 2. These pills were forwarded to the address of C. Jung, Chinese, 241 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, by Shung Tak Girls School, Seymour Road Lane 535, House 30, Shanghai. 3. These medicinal pills were segregated by Customs officers from an ordinary mail package when their morphine content was ascertained by chemical analysis. The balance of the shipment, consisting of various items of Chinese merchandise, was released. 4. C. Jung was not prosecuted.

No. 1996. — Seizure at San Francisco, California, on January 23rd, 1941. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, April 18th, 1941.

Reference : 1 (a). Brucine : 460 grammes ( 16.16 ounces) contained in sixteen O.C.S./Conf.l291. unmarked 1-ounce cellophane packages. 3. On January 23rd, 1941, when the American President Lines’ s.s. President Pierce arrived at the port of San Francisco from Manila via Hong-Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu, the master of the vessel turned over to Customs officers sixteen unmarked cellophane packages of brucine, a non-narcotic substance, weighing 460 grammes (16.16 ounces) net, with the statement that officers of the ship had discovered the packages during a routine search, while on the high seas, pasted beneath a wooden bench in the quarters occupied by the steerage cooks. One of the cooks, Wing Dee Joe, Chinese, stated that he had been given §150 by a Chinese resident of Los Angeles, California, with which he was to purchase a quantity of “ white stuff ” in the Far East and, on the return trip, to smuggle the drugs into the United States and then deliver them to the Los Angeles Chinese ; that he had purchased in Hong-Kong from a Chinese named Fong for the sum of 600 Hong-Kong dollars a large package of “ white stuff ” in the belief that the substance purchased was either morphine or heroin ; that he rewrapped it in sixteen cellophane packages and smuggled it aboard the President Pierce, concealing it in the manner described above. The ship’s doctor who examined the powder seized stated that it failed to respond to any of the usual “ spot tests ” made to determine the presence or kind of narcotic drugs. Chemical analysis at San Francisco disclosed that the substance was, in fact, brucine, a non- narcotic matter. This information has not been given to Wing Dee Joe, who has been released from custody and who has promised to assist the Government in the investigation of the Los Angeles Chinese. Incidentally, it should be stated that the latter Chinese is known to Customs officers as a narcotic smuggler with several convictions. His name cannot be divulged at the moment, since the investigation is still in progress. It is interesting to note that brucine, which has heretofore been prevalent in narcotic transactions along the Mexican border, is apparently being used in the Far East as a substitute for the genuine article in narcotic trafficking. This is said to be the first time that brucine has made its appearance at the port of San Francisco in connection with narcotic shipments from the Far East. A copy of the report was being transmitted to the British authorities.

No. 1997. — Seizures at Honolulu, Washington, D.C., and Calexico, California, in May, October and December 1940. Report communicated by the Government of the United States of America, February 13th, 1941.

Reference : 1 (ti). Chinese medicinal preparations containing narcotic drugs : O.C.S./Conf. 1266. “ Chee Kut ” cough pills, containing traces of morphine, 6 dozen boxes, 12 bottles to a box. “ Wai-Sang-Yuen ” pills, containing traces of morphine, 99 packages weighing 2 kg. 812 gr. (99 ounces), each package holding 4 pills. “ Shoe Hop Yuen ” pills, containing traces of opium alkaloid, 99 parcels of 10 pills each. “ Chee Sau Wan ” cough pills, containing morphine, 49 boxes. “ Dr. Tang Shih Yee cough pills, containing morphine, 8 boxes. 3. On May 25th, 1940, Customs officers at Honolulu seized the above consignment of Chee Kut cough pills1, wrhen it was determined that these pills contained traces of morphine. The shipment was consigned to the Honolulu firm of Wing Hong Yuen Company and came from Hong-Kong. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to obtain the name of the consignor. The importer has been warned that such shipments are prohibited. On October 10th, 1940, there were seized by Customs officers at Washington, D.C., ninety-nine packages of pills, each package holding four pills, weighing 2 kg. 812 gr. net

1 For the most recent reference to “ Chee Kut ” pills, see seizure report O.C.S./Conf. 521. — 32 —

(99 ounces), and containing traces of morphine. The packages bore the label of Wai San (Song) Yuen1, were manufactured by Kwong Shoon Yuen, and were purchased from Lee Yan. of Tack High Cheong, Hong-Kong. The consignee of the shipment was Tuck Cheong Company, Washington, B.C., Chinese importers of medicines and herbs, who were previously made the subject of a seizure report2. Representatives of Tuck Cheong claimed that they had no knowledge of the fact that the pills contained narcotic drugs, and stated that they had instructed the shipper not to forward any medicinal preparations containing such drugs to them in the future. On December 4th, 1940, a shipment of ninety-nine parcels, of ten pills each, containing traces of an opium alkaloid and consigned to Tuck Cheong Company, was seized at Washing­ ton, D.C. The consignor of the shipment was Tack High Cheong, Hong-Kong, and the invoice accompanying the shipment described the pills as “ Shoe Hop Yuen ”, purchased from Chan Lee Jai, Hong-Kong. This being the third seizure of medicines containing narcotic drugs consigned to the firm of Tuck Cheong, the question of criminal prosecution was discussed with the United States Attorney, who expressed the belief that there was insufficient evidence of guilty knowledge on the part of the consignee to warrant a successful prosecution. Representatives of Tuck Cheong Company, again interviewed, insisted that they had warned their business associate in Hong-Kong, Tack High Cheong, against such shipments. In fact, they claimed that it was not to their benefit to have these drugs sent to them, since their invariable seizure caused them loss of money. Customs officers at Calexico, California, on October 21st, 1940, seized forty-nine boxes of Chee Sau Wan cough pills, containing morphine, and eight boxes of Dr. Tang Shih Yee cough pills, containing morphine, the shipment being forwarded from Hong-Kong by Kung Yuen, 77 des Voeux Road, consigned to Wing Hing Company and Chao Gee Pun Y cia., 356 Avenida Reforma, Mexicali, Mexico, passing in transit through Los Angeles3. Copies of this report have been transmitted to the British and Mexican authorities.

1 Reference was made to W ai Sang Yuen pills in seizure report O.C.S./Conf. 457. However, on that occasion, it was stated that chemical analysis failed to reveal the presence of narcotic drugs in the pills. 2 see seizure report O.C.S./Conf. 508. ’ For the most recent reference to Chi Sau W an pills, and Dr. Tang Shih Yee pills, see document C.72.M.69.1941.XI [O.C.S.300{s)], page 24, Nos. 1905 and 1906. PART PART III

AMOUNTS OF THE VARIOUS DRUGS SEIZED IN EACH COUNTRY AS REPORTED IN THE ANNUAL REPORTS FOR 1939 RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARIAT

Drogues à base de chanvre indien Indian-hemp drugs Pilules Divers Opium Opium stupé­ Pays Reference brut préparé Morphine 1 i éroïne tiques fiants Country Raw Prepared Heroin Chanvre Narcotic Various opium opium indien Haschich et /and üagga Bhang Cigarettes pills drugs Indian llashish ganja hemp

Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Kg. Gr. Pièces Pièces Kg. Gr. Number Number Australie1...... 65 — 43 9 758 — 657 15 — 3 - 203 — 37 A ustralia1 Royaum e-Uni ..... 58 3a — 3 1 300 United Kingdom

Bassoutoland .... 14 433 813 Basutoland Betchounaland. . . . 15 20 - Bechuanaland

Guyane britannique. . 29 — 0.3 British Guiana

B irm a n ie ...... 61 5 644 980* Burm a C h y p re ...... 22 5 79 5 238 Cyprus

Ile F i d j i ...... 54 1 120 1 130 Fiji Ile M au rice ...... 64 3 865 280 Mauritius

Kénia...... 65 - 227 Kenya Nouvelle-Guinée . . . 51 small New Guinea quantity

P a le stin e ...... 63 42 800 1 194 - Palestine

Etats de Chan 61 1 397 120 82 51 - 110 Shan States, fédérés Federated 30 Swaziland...... 9 632 295 — Swaziland plants 31 — 135 Transjordanie .... — 14 Trans-Jordan Zanzibar ...... 34 — 667 13 636 Zanzibar

Canada ...... 2 — 226 2 654 — 99 — 46 — 233 — 65 24 986 249 716 473» Canada 3 1 110 662 E g y p te ...... ______24 954 — 295 723 813 36 187® Egypt France : France : Morocco M a r o c ...... 59 90 — 7 Tunis T u n isie...... 12 — 10 2 160 — 1.8 405 964 106 Guatemala G u a te m a la ...... 11 6 — 2 414 266 India I n d e ...... 1 314 1258 10 399 — 462 — 949 217 20 (c) 832 215 (g) Iran I r a n ...... 69 662 322 35 125 223 905 Iraq I r a k ...... 4 74 657° 14 843 4 34710 Mexico M e x iq u e ...... 50 7 — 60 — Netherlands : Pays-Bas : ...... Curacao C uraçao...... 8 18 227 — 541 — 55 19 Netherlands Indies Indes néerlandaises. . 66 & 66(a) 23 128 125 953 — 6 — 544 — 4 New Zealand Nouvelle-Zélande. . . . 53 1 77° Shanghai International « Settlement » interna­ 29 933 Settlem ent tional de Chang-Hai . 1 344 — 13 433 4 657 15 393 — 27511 Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Soudan (anglo-égyptien) 16 1 107 104 648 Thailand Thaïlande...... 68 218 761 4 44 Turkey T urquie...... 5 2 291 776 — 263 6 332 137 933 3 476 3 1314 United States of America Etats-Unis d’Amérique 49 140 90912 116 610 4 684 86 390 — 108 22 623 57213 Philippines P h ilip p in e s...... 67 14 — 1 94 — 13

1 273 305 1 049 235 748 813 2 427 902 3 725 29 933 760 351 Totals Totaux ...... 13 310 599 412 768.3 230 577 9 533 136 9 1 626.8 23 314 522

1 Includes opium tincture and codeine. Note by llie. Secretarial. 2 Includes prepared opium. 3 Various small seizures of drugs were reported totalling less than 50 grammes. The annual reports for a number of countries and territories state in varying terms * Includes prepared opium. that there was no illicit traffic during 1939, for instance : “ There were no cases of illicit 5 Includes codeine, dilaudide, paregoric, poppy heads (709 kg.), poppy-head brew (7 kg.) and unclassified drugs. traffic ”, “ There were no seizures ”, “ There were no confiscations ”, “ There was no ” Includes 15 kg. 657 gr. manzout. evidence of illicit traffic ”, and “ There is nothing to report in regard to the illicit traffic 7 Kil'f. Such statements were made in respect of the following countries and territories : Bulgaria, 8 Includes 191 kg. 294 gr. « sue d’opium ». ■ Includes dross. Denmark, Haiti, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Roumania, Salvador, Sweden, Venezuela, 10 « Sukhta » and « Shira ». Antigua, Bahamas, British Honduras, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, 11 Poppy seed. Grenada, Malta, Nauru, New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, Nyasaland, Papua, Sarawak, 12 In addition 151 grammes medicinal opium and 634 grammes tincture and extracts of opium. Solomon Islands (British), Somaliland (British), St. Helena, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia 14 22,807 kilogrammes bulk marihuana and 16 kilogrammes marihuana seed. 14 Includes codeine salts and miscellaneous drugs. and the Virgin Islands. — 36 —

INDEX TO LOCALITIES

Country and Locality Dale Page Country and Locality Date Page, Brazil : Portuguese Colonies : Rio de Janeiro August 27th, 1940 . . . 15 Lourenço Marques December 3rd, 1940. . 8 Macao June-December, 1940. 10 Chile : Valparaiso 1939 ...... 20,27 Thailand : October 1939-Julv China : 1940 ...... 15 Canton June-October, 1940 . . 4 January-March 1940. 10 Chefoo 4 Bangkok April-June 1940 .... 10 Foochow 4 Kowloon 4 Turkey : Lungkow 4 Shanghai October-December, Kilis Sector September 2nd, 1940 8 1940 ...... 4-6, Kilis 9, 16, 20 Kirazli, Yalova District Colombia : Barranquilla July 19th, 1940...... 21 United States of November 24th and America : December 5th. 1940 21 1940 ...... 28 Boston, Massachu­ Bogota May, 1940 ...... 28 setts October 25th, 1940. . 26 January 13th, 1941 29 Brawley, California July 27th and Sep­ Cauca October, 1940 ...... 29 tember 28th, 1940 . . 11 Colombia Penalties imposed du­ Brooklyn. New ring 1940 ...... 28 York October 20th, 1940. . . 23 Various dates and 22nd, 1940 . 23 places, 1939 ...... 20 -21 27th, 1940... 23 28th, 1940. . 23-24 Egypt : December 21st, 1940.. 24 Calexico, California July 27th and Sep­ Alexandria November, 1939 ...... 19 tember 28 th, 1940 11 Cairo August 9th, 1940 . . . 21 October 21st, 1940 32 Near Cairo September 17th, 1940. 21 -22 29th, 1940. . 25 Port Said May 16th, 1940 -'9-30 November 4th, 1940 25 Douglas, Arizona December 15th, 1940 25 France : El Centro, Califor­ 7 nia December 22nd, 1940 26 Marseilles November 7th, 1940. El Paso, Texas September, 194Ô...... 24 December 21st, 1940. 6-7 23rd, 1940 24 24th, 1940. 17 October 23rd, 1940. . . 25 January 28th, 1941 . . 17 November 3rd, 1940 . 25 February, 1941 17-18 7th, 1940 . 25 19th, 1941. 7 16th, 1940 25 Indo-China : December 9th, 1940 . 25 21st, 1940.. 25 Benthuy 21st, 1940.. 25 (Annam) January-March 1940 . 6 Hidalgo, Texas December 14th, 1940. 25 Thanh-Hoa, Ha- Honolulu, Territory tinh, Phu- of Hawaii May 25th, 1940 ...... 31 Nghia, September 26 th and (Annam) A 6 27th, 1940 ...... 27 Tourane November 13th, 1940 13 (Annam) 9 Jersey City, New Haiphong Jersey October 2nd, 1940 . . 11-12 (Tonkin) 6 Laredo, Texas November 8th, 1940 . 25 Hanoi (Tonkinj 6 Los Angeles, Cali­ Namdinh, Hoa- fornia October 8th, 1940. . . . 26 Binh, Phu- McAllen, Texas November 27th, 1940 Tho, Yenbay, Mercedes, Texas 29th, 1940 25 Thai Nguyen, New Orleans, Loui­ Bacninh siana September 24th, 1940.22-23 (Tonkin) 6 New York City, Ninh-Binh New York August-September, (Tonkin) „ 6 1940 10-11 September 9th, 1940 . 23 India : 27th, 1940 23 October 14th, 1940. . . 23 Bombay July and August, 1940 7 15th, 1940... 23 Calcutta April-September, 1940 7 ! 21st, 1940... 23 May 14th, 1940 19 25th, 1940... 23 „ 22nd, 1940 19 26th, 1940... 23 October 6th, 1940 . . . 7 28th, 1940... 23 Karachi July 24th, 1940 7-8 November 5th, 1940 . 12 12th, 1940 24 Palestine : 27th, 1940 24 December 2nd, 1940 . 24 Police Department April-August, 1940 .. . 22 17th, 1940 . 24 Customs Depart­ 29th, 1940 . 24 ment March-June, 1940 . . . 22 „ 30th, 1940 . 24 — 37 —

Country and Locality Date Page Country and Locality Date Page United States of United States of America (continued) America (continued) Nogales, Arizona September 16th, 1940 11 Savannah, Georgia December 8th, 1940.. 26-27 October 22nd, 1940 . 30 Seattle, December 15th, 1940 25 Washington September 24th, 1940 30 Philadelphia, Washington, D.C, October 10th, 1940. . 31 Pennsylvania January 14th-15th. December 4th, 1940 . 31 1941 ...... 8-9 Ysleta, Texas November 30th, 1940 25 December 17th, 1940 31 San Antonio, Texas November 15th, 1940 25 San Diego, Califor­ Philippine Islands : nia December 18th, 1940 25 Baguio October 9th, 1939, . . 14 San Francisco, Cali­ Cebu City November 4th, 1939 14 fornia October 2nd, 1940 . , 12 Manila August 22nd, 1939 14 November 19th-20th, October 10 th. 1939.. 14 1940 ...... 18 Misamis June 11th, 1939 .... 13 November 30th, 1940 13 Pagadian, Zambo­ January 23rd, 1941 . 31 anga February 26th, 1940 15 San Pedro, Califor­ San Pablo, Laguna August 10th, 1939 14 nia November 15th, 1940 26 Surigao June 13th. 1939 ___ 13 — 38 —

INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS, FIRMS, ETC.

Name Page Name Page Name Page Abdel Mejid Mohd. Youssef 19 Garcia, M ik e...... 24-26 Nguyen Yan H ai...... 17 Adib Michel Naggiar ... 19 Garza, O scar...... 24-26 Nguyen Van Lien ...... 17 18 Ah Foo ...... 9 Garza, Sam ...... 24-26 Nguyen Van O u an k 6 Akbal, N u ri...... 22 Giboin, Anne ...... 17 Nofal, Ahmed Khalil .... 22 All Abdou Emani...... 21 Go Suan Te ...... 14 Notardonato, Antoinette. 17-18 Altamar, Walberto ...... 21 Godecke & Company . . . 30 Altimirano, L u is...... 24-26 Gonzales, R o g er...... 24-26 Ochoa, Paul Lopez ...... 11 Alvarez, Alfredo Silva ... 20 Gonzalez, Raymundo . . . 23-24 Olivarez, J e s u s ...... 24-26 Amato, Dominick ...... 24-26 Gutierrez, Francisca 24-26 Onadim, L e m a n ...... 22 Ambrossio, Joséphine. . . . 17-18 Ortiz, David Saldano ... 20 An g Vea H a...... 13 Hanner, C letus...... 24-26 Ortiz, Martin ...... 24-26 Aoyama, Rywichi ...... 16 Harding, P ercy ...... 24-26 Aravena, Heriberto ...... 24 Harms, George A...... 12 Parker, Sam W ...... 24-26 Arroyo, L u is...... 24-26 Hart, Garland Reynolds . 26 Pelayo, Benito ...... 20 Heredia, Vincent...... 24-26 Perez, R am on...... 24-26 Baghdasarian, Margos ... 21 Hernandez, Roger...... 24-26 Posada, A b el...... 28 Barros, Roberto E...... 21 Hussein, Ahmed Tantawi. 21 Po Sun B rothers...... 13 Bartell, E. W ...... 24-26 Prada, Dolores v ...... 29 Becker, Nathan ...... 27 Inanli, Hatice 22 Prato, Domenico Nicolas.. 11 Beisin, M arie...... 17 Inanli, Ismail. 22 Prieto, Dr. Ernesto Garcia 28 Bliss, Glenn E d g a r 13 Brown, Clarence...... 24-26 Jamalud, Ben Ahad 14 Ouasarano, Raffaele .... 11 Brown, John G...... 30 Jiménez, Fernando 21 Quintero, Martin ...... 28 Jones, F ra n k ...... 30 Rijos, Eligio...... 23-24 Cantu, Foderico ...... 24-26 Jung, C...... 31 Rincon, J e s u s ...... 29 Carastathis, B asile 29-30 Rodriguez, M anuel 24-26 Carpintero, M. Ricardo . . 20 Kanayoshi, M...... 16 “Roque Castro” Pharmacy 29 Carter, Rose...... 30 Kanemoto, Z...... 16 Rosa, Adriano de l a iO Castro, R oque...... 29 Kenan Tahir...... 7 Chabert, Elise, alias “Zize” 17-18 Keuchkérian, Emsak . 21 Salverelli, Dominique. . . . 17-18 Chan Lee Jai ' ...... 31-32 Koong Ih opium hong 5 Sandoval, Filomeno 24-26 Chao Gee Pun Y cia 31-32 Kung Y u e n ...... 31-32 Sang Cheung...... 12 Chester, Joseph ...... 24-26 Kuremoto, M...... 16 Sazli, Hikmet...... 22 Chow Fook...... 12 Kwong Shoon Yuen .... 31-32 Shirikawa, Y...... 16 Chuy Kan ...... 1*4 Shung Tak Girls School 31 Cobos, Lorenzo...... 24-26 La Campana Company . . 30 Simond, Enrique ...... 20 Collino, Patrick N...... 11 Lang Leun ...... Stanford, Samuel ...... 22 Contreras, Raul ...... 21 Lee See, alias Sy Ho Ten 14 Sükrü, Osman Oglou .... 8 Cruz, Miguel R ...... 24-26 Lee Y a n ...... 31-32 Sy Chin Di ...... 13 Crwews, Howard ...... 24-26 Lew L in g ...... 7 Lopez, Alfonso ...... 29 Ta eh High Cheong 31-32 Darling, Melvin Elmer . . 11 Low B in g ...... 11 Tan Ho, alias Tan U alias Dashevsky, Alexander . . 18 Lozano, Juan de Dios . . . 24-26 Oh Na ...... 11 Dios, Juan d e ...... 24-26 Tan Tuat Hao ...... 13 Domingo...... 13 Manoughian, Wahan .... 21 Tar Shing opium hong . . 5 Dominguez, Ignacio 24-26 Marcello, P e te r...... 24-26 Tejeda, Carmelo Davilo . 20 Drogueria International . 28 Matthews, William Henry 23-24 Tenorio de Lima, Pedro. . 15 Duque, Alberto Munoz . . 28 Maury, Ana Dolores Nieto Tien Fah Yuen Teashop . 5 Dy L in g ...... 14 de ...... 20 Tongsia T an...... 13 Maury,GregorioAntonio de 20 Torres, Philip ...... 23-24 El Sayed Mansour Ads . . 22 Mazzeo, Miguel Segundo . 21 Tsuzaki, S...... 16 El Tanani,Hosni Mohamed 22 Medina, Antonio ...... 23-24 Tuck Cheong Company . . 31-32 El Tanani, Mohamed Aly. 22 Mendoza, F elix ...... 20 Türkü, H a sa n ...... Espinoza, Eduardo . . . ". 24-26 Mendoza, Pablo...... 20 Turner, Clarence ...... 24-26 Espriella, Luis Felipe ... 21 Miles, Manuel T...... 24-26 Estus, Lewis, Jr...... 24-26 Miller, Charles ...... 23-24 Vivas, David J o n a s ...... Miranda, Alberto ...... 21 Farmacia Charry...... 28 Moh Shing Transportation Wing Dee J o e ...... 31 Farmacia Medellin 28 Com pany...... 5 Wing Hing Company . . . 31-32 Farmacia Uribe Arcila . . 28 Moussali, Dr. Michel...... 19 Wing Hong Yuen Company 31-32 Farouk (pharmacy) ...... 19 Figueroa, Bernade ...... 23-24 Natali, Joseph Antoine . . 17 Yacoubian, Sarkis...... Foo Chin ...... 9 Ng Shu Y eo w ...... 8 Yamane, Ishiro ...... Nguyen, Gûu ...... 17 Yeldaz, Amet ...... 22 Gallegos, Alfonso ...... 24-26 Nguyen Van Ba, alias “Ba- Yeldaz, Husneye ...... 22 Garcia, Cleofas ...... 20 bouchet ”, alias “Bachet” 17-18 Young Yee H o p ...... H