CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926 — Page 27

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your predecessors observations on the

difficulty of taking action against

Nerazee under the Opium Ordinance as

it then stood.

5.

In these circumstances I

felt that there were insufficient

grounds for renewing the instructions

that such a prominent member of the

unofficial community in the Colony

(vide Sir R.E.Stubbs secret despatch of

the 7th of August, 1924) should be

denied facilities for travelling on his

legitimate business.

6.

I a observe however from page

2 of the Report forwarded with your

confidential despatch of the 27th of

October that some of the chests of

Persian opium carried by the s.s.

"Philadelphia" "had Nemazee's marks"

I presume you are satisfied that this

does not mean that the Hong Kong member

of