ECONOMIC INFORMATION: OPIUM SUPPRESSION, MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200500007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 9, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SW3JE T Econ x :c Informations Opium Supp ss on, Macao
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Former Grove rno:r Teixeira issued on 5 May .946 a decree (D ploria
No., 93-3) that the ex1n,tirtg opium dens whozo o era .tio
had until that date been allowed by the 31acao Gover=nment must
close down and that the sr?ioking and the trading of opium except
for medicinal purposes were forbidden. The reason fo.?:r this action.
was probably pressure made by the Kuomintang,. Since about ton
percent of the income was derived.from opium, the government
t;re.. sury hats received qu:. to a blow. The Governments s income in
1945 from opium amounted toMaczno $9.OO,000.00 ten percent of the
total income for that year. The expented income in 1911.6 was
Macao $34O,OO0.000
On 15 August of this year the Macao Government publicly demon-
strated its intention to stamp out opium smoking. Large quantities
of seized opium with much e iulpmeanzt used in the cooking of re.rw
opiiunt were heaped up on the Recreation Ground at- the Rua de Praia
Grande and burned in the presence of. the. anti-opium committee, corn-
prised of commissioner of Police Captain Salgado, Colonial Treasurer,
Siraoe s de Abreu., and Interpreter of the Civil Affairs Tfureau,
Jose Lopez.. Captain Salgado stressed the sincerity on the, part
of the Portuguese Goverrnr!ent in era d.icating opium smoking .while
announcing severe penalties for transgressors.
3.. The second official incineration of Government-seized opium c nd
heroin smoking equipment occurred on, 2 September 1946 in the
ado. be police apparently are carrying
presence of Captain Sal,-
out 'b-Li i_ly raids on opium dens; however, an evil so :Long, r iripant
in the colony cannot be eradicated in a matter of weeks. During the
third. .week of October- the following Chinese addicts ire re; arrested:
inni., JOONG' 7 eng, 42 Travo ssa dos
Fn -A-Ion g,. 1 1 Bairro Tariag
aiates, VON G wCli--ehan, Tryavessa tia Caldeira. They ,,er?e hailed
e_nt o court and sentence" to fii es of 1 acao 1>lO,OOO.O0, $400,000
rz 1.000:, 0O respectively, or in case of ;non--payment, to thirty
imprisonment and e.zpu:a i.on from the colony. t f t, 0(0 i s the
addic or on any
:iicrnlti~lF_l in. w s,~.cl`1 ._i.'ilpo od. on any opi..zs"_'.
one r;~zi 3_ty of breaking the law regarding this evil.
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