CO129-502-9 Opium traffic- activities of Nemazee family 1-12-1926 - 27-10-1927 — Page 95

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We feel that proof of a negative

proposition of this kind would be too

much to ask of liong Kong or anybody

else.

2. Moreover, from your reference

to Hong Kong as the "potential

prosecutors", we are not sure that you

have fully appreciated the Colonial

Office point of view.

3.

Hong Kong has all along

declared itself willing to proceed against

Nemazee in the Courts, if any evidence

could be produced on wach a charge could

be based under the Hong Kong laws. But

the Colonial Office does not contend

that he should not be denied travelling

facilities unless evidence of this

kind can be produced.

4. The situation in 1923 was that

while there was no evidence on which

proceedings could be taken against him

in the Hong Kong Courts, we were

satisfied that he was then very deeply

"oncerned