COPY.
No. 81.
sir.
British Consulate,
Shiras.
5th May, 1926.
In continuation of my despatches Nos. 15 of March
14th and 17 of March 23rd I have the honour to transmit
for your information notes of conversations today with Mr. Haji
Muhannad Namazi, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan Harazi of Hongkong
regarding the opium trade, and a claim in that connection.
2. Pointe of particular interest are hie statement, which
goes to confirm my previous information and which you may find
all the more satisfactory in view of your personal warning to
his father in April 1925, that neither le ji Muhammad Hasan
Nemezi himself nor his firm in Hongkong have had any dealings
in opium in 1926 and 1:26: his statement that his brother's firm
"A. Nemüsee and Co" in Bombay has since been dealing in opium
from India: and the emphasis which he laid on the suspicion
being prevalent in Persia that Great Britain is working for the
elimination of Persian opium from the Far Eastern market in orde
to give a fillip to the Indian opium export.
I have eto.,
Sir F.L. Loraine, Bart., K.C M.G.,
His Majesty's Minister,
etc.,
etc..
etc..
Tehran.
(Signed) H.G. Chiok.