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Consul at Shiraz, I recommended the names of two suitable merchants, I was informed that the Singapore Government had given the contracte to firme connected with that colony.
Of their order for 1467 chests, 1000 were to be
supplied directly by Nematee ( M.A. i. I suspect, though I am in no position to prove that some of the other importers' names were used merely as a blind to conceal the activities
of this better-known firaa.
The Chief Secretary, Sarawak, by his telegram No.33
of the 28th september 1986, licensed the L-port of 150 chests of opium by Messrs, J.A. Elias, who also figure in the list
of importere for Vingapore.
The Government or the Netherlands East Indies have
also sanctioned the import of 700 cases for use in that
colony. f this 300 cases are to be imported by the firm of
How much eyer Bros. and the balance by Lesers. J..Miss.
the Numazege are interested in this, I cannot say.
Another Wemasee-named Haji Mohammed Hasan
Nemazee of Shanghai appears to have been concerned in the
export of 166 cheats of opium for the Kwantung Leased
Perritorios in October last.
finally, I am now in receipt of a licence issued by
the Siamese Government, permitting ir. H.A. Nemazee of
Singapore to import 1100 cheste into wiam. Thus, out of
the 3917 chests recently licensed, the Bemazce family have
been directly interested in 2200 ohesta and are probably
indirectly interested in the remainder.
While the Nemasee family cannot be attacked for
their present activities, it may be argued that, in thus
makin
use of them, they are being helped to build up such a
strong position that they will, when the state of China,
again