Far st though, as you are aware, there was (in the opinion of the lega" „dvisers of the Hong Kong Government and the Colonial Office) nothing on which he could be prosecuted under the Hong Kong Ordinance as it stood; in fact he seems always to have been careful to avoid any infraction of the Hong Kong laws. But he had gone to Persia where, it was to be presumed, he would continue to deal in opium.
At the same time the Governor was instructed to amend the Ordinance to make "procuring" illegal except under licence. With this loophole stopped, Nemezi would either have to go out of the opium business (at any rate so fur us Hong Kong was con- cerned) or else (if he continued his operations and if he were in Hong Kong or if his firm in Hong Kong had any hand in the business) to break the new Hong Kong law.
We presumed that he would so continue, und in those circumstances, the Colonial Office did not
object