CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926 — Page 58

object to the Governor being instructed to withhold

travelling facilities.

Circumstances have however now changed.

He

claims to have gone out of the opium business and to

have no intention of engaging in any transactions

contrary to the Hong Kong law, and so far as we can

see there is no evidence that this is not the case.

Moreover, it seemed to us that the Hong Kong law is

now so stringent that if he or his firm in Hong Kong

should start dealing in opium again there ought not

to be any great difficulty in bringing him to book.

There was the further consideration (which

I mentioned to you) that we do not up, ear to have any evidence that the Hong Kong Nemuzi has any responsibility

for the transactions conducted by the businesses run

by other members of the family; but that, on the other hand, there are indications (e.g.the recent telegram from singapore) that the various concerns are independent

and not branches of one business

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though of course

each concern no doubt has branches of its own.

In these circumstances it was submitted to

our