'The preventive fleet now consists of 26 main sea-going units, besides the many smaller craft operating in various localities. "As the shipbuilding 'Programme was only completed dur-jing the year, not by any means the whole eet' was in commission throughout the whole of the period under review. Nevertheless, a great improvement in the smuggling situation was in evidence, and confirmation of this has been received in the form of several communications on the subject from legitimate trading circles. The total proceeds of the year's fines and confiscations amounted fo $7.9 million, as against $04 million 1983, $3.7 million in 1982, and $27 million in 1931, Confiscated artificial silic ess and' yarn, together with white sugar, contributed 62 per cent. of the total proceeds in question, '727218 kdogrammes und 92,515 quintals of these commodities being Kilogrammes and 45,130 _quintals, respectively, during the preceding year.
The following are the particulars of the vessels confiscated for smuggling during 1994: 87 power craft, 782 junks, and 43 "snake-boats," as against 27 power craft, 485 junks, and 122 "snake-beals" in 1983. Smuggling by the last-named type of boat has been almost completely suppressed in the Macao district, hence the decline in amount of duty paid to revenue account on goods seized and confiscated during the year amounted to. 3.1 million dollars, while the indirect benefit to the "revenue, on account of the deterrent effect of the successful anti-smuggling measures adopted by the Customs, must have equalled many times that sum.
These achievements directly or indirectly cost the lives of six of the Chinese and one of the foreign personnel of the Customs Preventive Service during the period under
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