THE ANTI-NEMAZI CAMPAIGN.
Mr. Haji Muhammed Hassan Nemazi, a Persian subject who was locally naturalised in Hongkong some years ago is a well known and well-to-do shipowner and merchant. Among his other activities he has, for years, dealt in Persian opium on a big scale.
About 3 or 4 years ago it became clear that he was engaged in the opium smuggling trade, as consignment after consignment appeared under his name in the Persian Gulf consular shipping reports with no conceivable "legitimate" destination, since they were greatly in excess of the "legitimate" requirements of Macao and Japan. On arrival in the Far East most of this opium disappeared "into the blue". Part of it was fairly definitely accounted for as imported into Macao, by the device of passing 4 "chests" into one "case", but the bulk of it was presumed to go (a) to China for smoking purposes (the importation of opium into China is officially prohibited) and/or (b) into Japan, for conversion into morphine, which in turn was largely smuggled into China.
On the representations of the Home Office (which Department is concerned by virtue of the fact that Sir M. Delevingne is the British Representative on the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee) backed by the Foreign Office, the Governor of Hongkong was instructed to do his utrost to put a stop to Nemazi's activities in this
illicit