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Byndicates engaged in the smuggling of drugs into the Far East, and it is clear that the business is being carried on on an enormous
<1 sol like to discuss also vit further measures can be taken to deal with people like Namazee. ithout the sport of big financiers the trade could not be carried on.
Yours sincerely,
Malcolm Delevigne
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Matters for discussion with Sir Malcolm Delevingne.
A. The effectiveness of the HongKong Preventive Service.
The position is summed up in paragraphs
5,6,and 7 of 31940. The Governor who is thoroughly
acquainted with local conditions is definitely satisfied
that the preventive measures already adopted are as
rigorous as it is practicable or expedient to make them.
The constant seizures would appear to be sufficient
vindication of their effectiveness. As regards the
Superintendent of Imports and Exports almost plaintive
of his report in 47043 remark at the beginning of paragraph 12/(that the existing
Opium Ordinance makes it very difficult to deal with
bulk imports) it should be noted that the Hong Kong
Government was asked in June to overhaul the whole of the
Opium Ordinance, so as to bring it into line with
present conditions.
B. The problem of dealing with the principals and
financiers behind the actual smigglers.
He owns
Nemazee's operations have become notorious. the great majority of the ships trading from the Persian
Gulf and he appears to supply opium to most of the countries in the Far East; and (although no doubt many of his transactions are perfectly licit) it seems to be
certain that he is carrying on an enormous illicit
traffic.
Until the receipt of the report which forms the enclosure to 47043, I had not seen any suggestion that
he was concerned in smuggling opium into Hongkong. This
however also appears now to be the case. Though it will be observed that he himself was careful not to operate
within
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