[ { "id": 233937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "content_text": "Mohammad\n\nof £91 to £86-13.4 versus steered in\n\nYou better) is\n\nonly applicable\n\nto home passages during the\n\nMother of argument, September,\n\nOctober, November\n\nand December.\n\nMr. Merinte\n\nInformation Group.\n\nAnnex A\n\nAm Jum 24\n\nA\n\nmerry.\n\nPage 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "the Executive Council\n\nML\n\nSaturday\n\nnext, the 20th instant, at 11 o'clock A.M. and that Counsel might attend on behalf of the accused, and\n\nAttorney General to conduct the examination for the Crown. His\n\nThe\n\nExcellency\n\nundertook to issue the\n\nnecessary instructions\n\non the subject!\n\nA True Extract\n\nClerk of the Councils.\n\nC\n\nExecutive Council.\n\nPresent.\n\n89\n\n99\n\nMarch 1856.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor\n\nThe Hon'ble. The Lieut. Governor\n\nThe Hon'ble. The Council Secretary.\n\nThe Hon'ble : Lieut: Colonel Caulfield.\n\nThe Council met this day pursuant to\n\nadjournment.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Council\n\nembodying the Resolution for the Enquiry\n\ninto the cause\n\nof the Murder\n\nof one Mahammed Ali at Sakumpor, being read by the Governor's order,\n\naffirmed, and His Excellency desired me to take the Chief Justice's Notes of\n\nthe trial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240809, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "Course should be shown in \n\nElevation, & the floor of \n\nat \n\non the Verandah \n\nat least 8 inches above the foundation \n\nfloor for Reasons 10 inches and the floor \n\nthat of the Verandah \n\nThe Estimate does not provide \n\nfor the expenditure required in the face. \n\nAlterations of the site, \n\nof boundary \n\nWalls - \n\nSuch details \n\nare requisite and may \n\nbe required for the erection \n\nof additions \n\nto be carried out \n\nin the preparations of detail drawings and the specifications for the Contractor \n\nWe recommend the acceptance \n\nof the Tender for £20,000 for the execution of the works, & that \n\nthe unappropriated balance on the Estimate be devoted to the services unprovided for in the Estimate, such as clearing the site and boundary \n\nwalls, \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nYour Obedient Servant \n\nE. T. E.\n\nMuhammad \n\nReported Estimate \n\n249", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "## \n328 \n\nMohammad \n\nas applied to this trade has reference to the non-observance \nof some Chinese regulations expecting the importation of \nArms into that Country: for I do not think that any \nProclamation has heretofore been issued by the Majesty's Government announcing hostility to the Taipings, or enjoining neutrality between the \ncontending parties, since bearing date and certainly not \nhaving been issued on this subject, a Proclamation was \nissued by this Government of Hongkong under the \nAuthority of Ordinance No 3 \nof 1882, recently passed at the suggestion of the Secretary of \nState; and under these \nCircumstances the sale of \nArms in Hongkong, whether to Imperialists or Taipings, and their subsequent exportation from the Colony, etc, as for as I \ncan see, at present \nshould not be considered a \nviolation of any \nBritish Law or Regulation \n\nBut I scarcely think \nthe Taipings \nor other insurgent \nparties in \nChina \ncan be supplied \n\nPage 330\nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Petition to Abolish Licensed Gaming Houses\n\nMuhammad ... was that of a supplicant, who had accompanied his Master from Japan to this colony. Mr ... His Lordship the Chief Justice was tried before ... on the 23d November, when his master testified that she had previously borne a good character.\n\nAspects so unfavorable to our prestige in the East should not be allowed to continue here. Whatever benefits the Gambling proprietors may claim to confer on the Chinese population, it is clear that the latter suffer greatly. One gentleman had never, to his knowledge, been guilty of an act of dishonesty. Here, however, the influence of the Licensed Gaming Houses was too strong for him. To afford him the means of entering them, he was guilty of theft and imposition; and the result was a sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labor. We regret to say that similar instances have come to Mr. Knord's notice, and that as a consequence of the Gaming Houses, a great amount of suspicion has become rife among the Chinese population, which interferes with the prosperity of the Colony; and that by the great majority of our residents, the discontinuance would be hailed with satisfaction.\n\nWe beg to call your Lordship's attention to the fact that the Revenue derived from House Licenses amounts to about $160,000, of which upwards of $100,000 are every year accumulating under the care of the Colonial Office, for what object and with what ulterior intentions we do not know. This fact, coupled with its mysteriousness, increases our astonishment that a system so contrary to the laws of Great Britain and to the practices of the British people, and which is quite sufficient to corrupt any community, should be allowed to continue.\n\nIn view of all these considerations, we would earnestly entreat your Lordship to instruct the Governor of this Colony entirely to abolish the existing system of Licensed Gaming Houses.\n\nWe are, \nMay it please your Lordship, \nYour Lordship's obedient, humble servants, \nJung Mingshan \n馮明珊 \nTha Wolley \nFerichtar \nAB Lamann et al. \nJimin, \nMitchcock.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "105\n\nhonour to transmit herewith an application from him for the office of Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol.\n\nMuhammad\n\nThe Head-Master (Mr Wright) reports in high terms of Mr Jacomer's energy, punctuality, and success in his present post; and he is a good Chinese Scholar. But I have informed him that I have strongly recommended your Lordship to send out from England a superintendent regularly trained in one of the principal Penal Establishments, and that this recommendation has been approved.\n\n3. I take this opportunity of again, as in my Despatch No. 345 of the 21st December ultimo and No. 2682 of 1883, representing the importance of the speedy arrival of the new Superintendent, without whose experienced assistance it would be futile to attempt the introduction of the much-needed reforms of the regulations and discipline of the Prison.\n\nThe office has now been vacant for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nAlways having his pass with him, Khan Beg went to Peshawar and effected the sale of a rifle. Then returning to Rawalpindi, he came on to Kohat, sold the rifle recovered with Diyal Singh's pass and returned to Rawalpindi. A second time venturing to Kohat he was arrested. The rifle lodged in the lines of the 20th Punjab Infantry has been recovered, together with the three referred to above.\n\nThere appear to be several points worthy of attention in the case of which the above is an outline:-\n\n(1) The ease with which sepoys obtain passes from Military Officers to carry arms. Officers of the Indian Army grant passes in a lavish way. Usually, no attempt being made to specify the weapon, an enterprising man has Khan Beg's method open to him, with a fair chance of success.\n\n(2) A trade, the existence of which Khan Beg admits, in rifles between Hong-Kong and this country.\n\nApart from this case, Khan Beg has given the names of fellow-gunners who have brought arms into the Hazara district. The District Superintendent of Police, Hazara, is satisfied of the truth of this, but has failed to obtain the return of any rifles.\n\n(3) The very slight risk run in transporting rifles, provided there is no attempt at concealment.\n\nKhan Beg in his many journeys was rarely questioned, and never in the Punjab. The Sergeant sent from Kohat in returning with the rifle recovered in Mean Meer, though in plain clothes, was never spoken to.\n\n(4) The probability that the export of arms from Hong-Kong is not restricted to the \"Asiatic Artillery,\" but shared in by the Infantry and Police.\n\n(5) The necessity of a closer watch on the movements of sepoys, especially when travelling with boxes nearly four feet long, as was that of Khan Beg.\n\n(6) The help afforded by regimental sepoys in the secretion of arms.\n\nMen of at least three regiments (11th Bengal Lancers, 20th and 33rd Punjab Infantry) gave Khan Beg all the assistance they could. Commanding Officers of the 11th Bengal Lancers and 20th Punjab Infantry are taking regimental action in this case.\n\nIt only remains to describe the recovered rifles. They were made in Liege (Belgium) and Steyr (Austria), and one by J. Hollis & Sons, London and Birmingham. District Superintendent of Police at first thought the continental weapons might be of the \"condemned barrel type\" referred to by Mr. Hastings, but such officers and armourers as have seen them pronounce them first-class weapons. They were probably brought from W. G. Humphreys & Co., or Tang Hing, carpenter, 180, Queen's Road, West, Hong-Kong, for with both of these firms Khan Beg has evidently had dealings.\n\nKhan Beg has been convicted under sections 19, 20, and 22 of Act XI of 1873, and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment: the rifles and box in which they were brought over have been confiscated.\n\nThe 29th November 1893.\n\n**H. A. CLOSE,**\nOfg. District Superintendent of Police, Kohat.\n\n## \nproduce no authority entitling him to purchase and carry ammunition. He was travelling in company with about 80 other sepoys. He was fined by the Cantonment Magistrate Rs. 10 and the ammunition was forfeited.\n\nSepoy No. 705, Muhammad Ali, son of Sayad Ali Pathan, resident of Garhi, Thana Mardan, Peshawar, was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 23rd April 1894, under Section 20 of the Arms Act, for being in possession of six-chambered revolver and 100 cartridges not covered by any license or letter. He was sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 or in default to three months' rigorous imprisonment, and forfeiture of the revolver and cartridges.\n\nSepoy No. 836, Nakib-ullah, son of Fakir, Pathan, resident of Shamatkor, Thana Mardan, Peshawar, was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 23rd April 1894, under Section 20 of the Arms Act, with the above-named Sepoy, being also in possession of a six-chambered revolver, with 200 cartridges, not covered by license or certificate. He was sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 or in default to three months' rigorous imprisonment, and forfeiture of revolver and cartridges.\n\nSepoy Khanzada, son of Ajib Gul, Kamazai Khel, resident of Wata in Swat, was detected by the patrolling constable between Lala Musa and Rawalpindi to be in possession of one six-chambered revolver, 100 revolver cartridges, eight blank and one loaded snider cartridges, as well as two boxes of percussion caps. He was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 26th April 1894, and sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 and forfeiture of the revolver and ammunition. This man had a letter from his Commanding Officer, permitting him to carry a rifle and 100 cartridges, which were taken from him by the Calcutta Police.\n\nSubadar-Major Hassan Ali Khan, son of Fazal Khan, Khatak, of Jabbi Madauri, Kohat, of the 16th Hong-Kong Regiment, alighted from 3 Up Mail at Khairabad on the 26th of April 1894. He was in possession of a double-barrel gun, a Henry-Martini rifle, a cavalry carbine, a pistol and 500 cartridges. As all these were covered by a letter from his Commanding Officer, he was not interfered with.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2.\n\n**Report from the Punjab Police.**\n\n**ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN ARMS, &c.**\n\nOn the 19th April, a telegram was received from the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, intimating that 150 sepoys from Hong-Kong had that day left Calcutta for their homes in the Punjab, and that they were suspected by their Commandant to be in possession of contraband fire-arms. All Station Masters and Railway Police, Peshawar to Delhi, on the North Western Railway were put on the alert by wire, and Inspectors, Railway Police, were ordered to see that strict vigilance was maintained. The following is the result:-\n\n| Sepoy No. | Name | Resident of | Arrested at | Offense |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 259 | Amir Shah | village Jallo, Thara Mansehra, Huzara | Ambala Cantonment Railway Station | Illegal possession of two boxes Enfield gun-caps and two boxes military percussion caps |\n| 705 | Muhammad Ali | Garhi, Thana Mardan, Peshawar | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver and 100 cartridges without license |\n| 836 | Nakib-ullah | Shamatkor, Thana Mardan, Peshawar | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver and 200 cartridges without license |\n| - | Khanzada | Wata in Swat | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver, cartridges, and percussion caps |\n \nSepoy No. 259, Amir Shah, son of Muazzam Shah, resident of village Jallo, Thara Mansehra, Huzara, was arrested at Ambala Cantonment Railway Station on the 23rd of April 1894, under Section 19 of the Arms Act, for illegal possession of two boxes Enfield gun-caps, English manufacture, and two boxes military percussion caps made in Germany for the Hong Kong market. The sepoys stated that he had bought the caps in Hong-Kong, but could... \n\nPage 58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 304, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# No. 2524-G., dated Indore Residency, the 29th March 1895\nFrom-**LIEUTENANT-COLONEL D. W. K. BARR**, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India,\nTo-**The Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department**.\n\nI have the honour to submit, for the favourable consideration of the Government of India, the accompanying letter from the Political Agent in Bhopal, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. There are no local objections to the Nawab's proposals, unless an absence of two years from his estate be considered excessive.\n\n3. Should the Nawab's proposal meet with the approval of the Government of India, he will be given a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n# No. 447-169-84, dated Bhopal Political Agency, Sebore, the 18th March 1895.\nFrom-**MAJOR M. J. MEADE**, Political Agent in Bhopal,\nTo-**The 1st Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence ending with your office telegram `No. 7811`, dated the 21st October 1893, conveying permission for Mohammad Amar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Basoda to go and visit Madrid and Lisbon, I have the honour to state that the Nawab could not avail himself of the permission owing to the failure of crops that year, and he has now sent me a yaddasht requesting to be allowed to go and visit America and Australia.\n\n2. The Nawab proposes to embark from Calcutta and to sail to America *viá* Hongkong and Japan and to return to Bombay *vid* Liverpool, Gibralter, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Naples and the river Nile in Egypt. After his return from America the Nawab intends spending a few days at his capital to see if things are going on all right, and then to resume his travels to Australia. The money required for his trip to America will be, he estimates, about Rs. 5,000, and it will take the Nawab five months to complete the journey. Separate arrangements will be made for his travels to Australia.\n\n3. The Nawab assures me that the State is free from all embarrassments, that the administration is being carried on smoothly, and will be managed as usual by his son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, during his absence. He asks that, as after his return from America, he will only be here for a short time before proceeding to Australia, sanction may be obtained for his absence from Basoda for two years to save time.\n\n4. I see no reason why the wishes of the Nawab should not be complied with except that the period he intends remaining away is too long, and I therefore forward his application for the favourable consideration of the Agent to the Governor-General.\n\n5. If the Government of India sanctions the Nawab's request, I beg that the usual circular letter in English may be forwarded for his use.\n\n# No. 1235-1, dated Simla, the 16th April 1895.\nFrom-**CAPTAIN H. DALY**, Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department,\nTo-**The Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `No. 2524-G.`, of 29th March 1895, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. On the understanding that the Nawab's son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, will carry on the administration of the State during his father's absence, the Governor-General in Council has no objection to the Nawab travelling as proposed. He may be furnished with a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n**INDIA OFFICE**\nG. C. Press, Simla. `No. 153 F.D.--30-4-95.--35.`\n17 MAY 95\n1\n301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365343, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "Muhammad...\n\n186\n\nbeen the mainspring of the importance it has arrived at\n\nas\n\na port of call and converging centre for the bulk of\n\nthe shipping visiting the Far Eastern Seas.\n\nIn view however of Mr Chamberlain's opinion that the\n\namount levied as Harbour Dues should not exceed the total\n\nexpenditure on the Harbour Department, I am desired to\n\ndraw attention to the following facts, which it is considered\n\nconclusively indicate that, on this basis,\n\nthere is $40,000 available from this source for General Harbour\n\nExpenditure, and, as is shown in Sir William Robinson's letter, there\n\nis a further revenue of $50,000 a year emanating from the charge\n\non native craft also available for that purpose, but, in addition\n\nto this sum of $90,000 per annum, I am able to state that there\n\nare further charges on shipping collected by the Harbour Department\n\nsuch as Native Emigration Fees, taxes on Moorings and Lighters, &c. which bring in a considerable annual revenue, though\n\nI am unable, from the information at my disposal in this country,\n\nto state what the amount is.\n\nIn the letter from H.E. the Governor of Hong Kong\n\nit is stated that the tonnage which visited the port in\n\n1895 amounted to 5,772,289 tons, which at 1 cent per ton\n\nwould yield a revenue of upwards of $57,000. In the letter\n\nfrom the Shipping Firms of the 13th ultimo, it was\n\npointed out that the present total annual expenditure of\n\nthe whole Lighthouse Establishment of Hong Kong is under\n\n$17,000. There is consequently a balance of upwards of\n\n$40,000\n\nIt is considered however that the foregoing statements may\n\nbe fairly held to indicate that the revenue at present collected\n\nby the Harbour Department (exclusive of the special levy of 1\n\ncent per ton as Light Dues in connection with the Gap Rock Lighthouse)\n\nis already in excess of the total expenditure of that\n\nDepartment,\n\nand it is therefore respectfully urged that no\n\nfurther tax of any description may be levied upon Shipping, as\n\nsuch a charge would be exclusively applicable to the general\n\nexpenditure of the Colony, and is absolutely not required to\n\nmeet", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nOn behalf of the Government of Hong Kong the equivalent at the current rate of exchange of $23,650.12 being the expenses incurred by that Government.\n\n## MINUTE\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for Foreign Office.\n\n217. Fiddian. 24/8/98.\n\n139.\n\n26 Aug. 98. Svi W. Hamilton. 25.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of May last, at the request of the Marques of Salisbury.\n\nTo,\nMr. Lucas,\nMr. Graham,\nMr. Wingfield,\nEarl of Selborne,\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nYour letter from the office of the 3rd instant, respecting bat Muhammad Lag stating that the expenses would be fast by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | expenses incurred by the Government of Hong Kong | \n| ... | equivalent at the current rate of exchange of $23,650.12 | \n\nbecomes simply:\n\nOn behalf of the Government of Hong Kong the equivalent at the current rate of exchange of $23,650.12 being the expenses incurred by that Government.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for Foreign Office.\n\n217. Fiddian. 24/8/98.\n139.\n26 Aug. 98. Svi W. Hamilton. 25.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of May last, at the request of the Marques of Salisbury.\n\nTo,\nMr. Lucas,\nMr. Graham,\nMr. Wingfield,\nEarl of Selborne,\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nYour letter from the office of the 3rd instant, respecting bat Muhammad Lag stating that the expenses would be fast by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nRevised to:\nOn behalf of the Government of Hong Kong the equivalent at the current rate of exchange of $23,650.12 being the expenses incurred by that Government.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for Foreign Office.\n\n217. Fiddian. 24/8/98.\n139.\n26 Aug. 98. Svi W. Hamilton. 25.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of May last, at the request of the Marquess of Salisbury.\n\nTo,\nMr. Lucas,\nMr. Graham,\nMr. Wingfield,\nEarl of Selborne,\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nYour letter from the office of the 3rd instant, respecting bat Muhammad Lag stating that the expenses would be fast by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nRevised further to standard Markdown:\n\nOn behalf of the **Government of Hong Kong** the equivalent at the current rate of exchange of $23,650.12 being the expenses incurred by that Government.\n\n## MINUTE\nThe Under Secretary of State for **Foreign Office**.\n217. Fiddian. 24/8/98.\n139.\n26 Aug. 98. Svi W. Hamilton. 25.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of May last, at the request of the **Marquess of Salisbury**.\n\nTo,\nMr. Lucas,\nMr. Graham,\nMr. Wingfield,\nEarl of Selborne,\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nYour letter from the office of the 3rd instant, respecting bat Muhammad Lag stating that the expenses would be fast by the Government of Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## hast attribute to this maintenance, a latter \n\ndraft despatch in 8018. part of \n\n? Reply that in view of the Treasury opinion Mr Chablain is prepared to withdraw the objection to the clause referred to but trusts that every effort will be made to ascertain whether the manics cannot be made responsible from \n\nMy Pranson- B4-2315. I just. 1971 W Hamis 28 June \n\nAnders if \n\n1 accept the Treasury view in this latter, it will \n\nIf we hereafter be quoted \n\nbut \n\nQua precedent for all the colonies. \n\nThe Italian arrangement referred to by the Treasury is described in `Ja 708802/92` pointed out in the memorandum, in that paper the arrangement has not been accepted by or applied to the Colonies generally: If it were applied, it would not be likely to benefit any colony except perhaps Malta, as colonial lunatics are not likely to be found in large numbers in Italy. \n\nI was thinking it had better reply that the arrangement with Italy to certain European countries referred to by Takomy does not benefit the colonies has not been accepted by or applied to the Colonies, as pointed out in the F.O. memorandum Enclosed in `680242`. I hold with Chautalain, therefore, to the Opinion expressed in the letter from the draft of the 4th April. \n\nI am annexing there cases of Lunatics \n\n`6200/89` f. St. Vincent, \n`6166/89` f. St. Lucia \n`525/95` f. St. Lucia \n`13586/98` f. Jamaica \n`6605/98` f. Falklands \nA summary of a most class of case \n\n| Colony | Year | Cases |\n| --------- | ---- | -------- |\n| Jamaica | 1898 | 528 |\n| Falklands | ... | 4 |\n| Jamaica | ... | Carlice |\n| Jamaica | ... | Japers |\n\nIn the Falklands case a man domiciled in the Colony & who was \n\nIn St. Vincent case (there being no cost awarded in the Colony). Lee Maricates on `5418/qu`.\n\n(&L (x)—12435—2000-1-99 \n22317-8000-10-99 \n\nThe St. Vincent case applies, \n\nbut the Jamaica case relates to rather the Joint \n\ncertain Miss Chamberlains \n\nnation of Jamaica, but who had left Jamaica in 1880 & became insane in \n\nIn Lee's case \n\naccepted Mohammad Jamaica's liability & maintenance & Jamaica at once admits it also conditionally on the hand understanding that the bod not abandon Lee's domicile \n\nJamaica. Frequently the Council refused \n\nLeg: To accept", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, May 11, 1904. IN continuation of my letter, dated the 27th April, 1904, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of India, translations of a letter and its inclosure, received by the Political Agent in Gilgit from the Mir of Hunza regarding the recent interchange of presents between Hunza and the Chinese authorities at Kashgar.\n\n## (Translation.)\n\nI have given this order, and thus every year he comes he is well looked after. It would be better if in future you send the gold earlier. You, Mansabdar, are doing your work well, and have given your heart to it. We also are pleased with you. When a person possesses peace of mind, he can then work in the interests of his subjects, look after them diligently, and do good to them. In such circumstances the subjects, too, serve their Ruler with devotion and behave like good people. The result is that such an Empire never comes to grief. I, Taotai, am very pleased with you, Mansabdar, so I write this to you.\n\nThis letter is given to Mansabdar, Mir of Kanjut, Muhammad Nazim Khan, 30th year of Kuang-Hsü Khan, 19th of the 1st month—viz., Zilhijja, 1321 (8th March, 1904).\n\n# Inclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n## Mir of Hunza to Captain Gurdon.\n\n(After compliments.)\n\n1 Safar, 1322 (April 18, 1904), NAZAR ALI has returned from Kashgar with the presents that the Chinese authorities send me every year. I am sending the Taotai's letter on to you, and hope it will reach you.\n\n2. As directed by Colonel Miles, Nazar Ali talked over the Raskam question with the Taotai, and explained that Raskam was from ancient times within the limits of Kanjut, that in the past years the Taotai had stated that the lands were given over to the Kanjutis, but that the Russians were making mischief, and that Raskam could not therefore be given either to Hunza people or to any other people, and that now the people of Sarikol were cultivating the lands for reasons not known. The Taotai, in reply, said that the Raskam lands were undoubtedly within the Kanjut limits, and that he would write on the subject to the Futai (Governor of New Dominions) at Urumchi, who, the Taotai hoped, would sanction the grant. All this conversation was reported by Nazar Ali to Colonel Miles with full details. The Taotai also said that he would write to the Amban at Tashkurghan and instruct him to prohibit cultivation in Raskam by foreign people.\n\n# Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n## Taotai of Kashgar to Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan of Hunza.\n\nI HAVE seen the letter you sent me. You, Mansabdar (official), have sent here the gold fixed from old times for the 29th year of Kuang-Hsü Khan (Emperor of China). It weighed 1 seer and 5 miskals (4 tolas). I, Taotai, have received it personally, and will forward it to Shingjang Shongfu (Governor of the New Dominions at Urumchi). The said Shongfu will send it on to Bogh Khan (Emperor of China). As usual, two pieces of tawar (Chinese silk of superior quality) have been sent you by hand of Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah. They will deliver them to you. I, Taotai, have, according to old usage, shown my favour to you and have sent to you, Mansabdar, 20 pieces of shahi (Bokhara silk), 10 bricks of black tea, 4 pairs of China cups, and 1 big yamboo (Chinese silver coin weighing 160 tolas). In addition, I am also sending 2 pieces of durdoon (Chinese silk inferior to tawar), and 200 pieces of white and blue kirbas (coarse cloth made in Kashgar). All these things have been made over to your men who came here, and they will hand them over to you. You should see these favours of mine and distribute the articles among the persons who are doing service to you, so that they also may see the favours. To Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah I have shown my kindness by granting them 12 strings of puls (1 string = 20 tangas = about rupees 3:8), China cups, kirbas, and black tea. I have also given them a written order to all my subordinate officials to look after them (Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah) properly, treat them respectfully, and make their journey easy from karawal to karawal (karawal is a small post stationed at certain places to watch routes leading from one place to another). No hire will be taken from them for the carts and ponies supplied to them.\n\n# (Confidential.)\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, June 3, 1904. IN continuation of the correspondence ending with my telegram of the 22nd April, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of the India, copy of a letter of the 19th May, received from the Political Agent, Gilgit, in which he expresses his views on the amount of compensation to be given to the Mir of Hunza, if the relations of that Chief with China are to be severed, and also on the possible measures for providing for the redundant population of Hunza.\n\nI concur with the Political Agent that, under the circumstances explained by him, the actual pecuniary loss to the Mir, if the severance of the relations of his State with China is effected, would possibly be less than that sum, but it is a matter in which compensation should, I think, be liberally given. The compensation should be fixed at not less than 3,000 rupees per annum.\n\nOf the three possible measures proposed for relieving the excess population of Hunza, the one promising the quickest and most certain results is, in my opinion, the suggested increase in the strength of the existing levies. Captain Gurdon has pointed out that, although relief is not so urgently required in Nagar as in Hunza, it would, nevertheless, be impolitic while dealing with the question to omit the former State from consideration. The increase in the number of levies in each State to 250 men is, in my opinion, in itself a desirable measure, for the Hunza and Nagar men make excellent levies, and may now, I think, be fully depended on, but it would be a somewhat costly measure, involving, according to the Political Agent, an extra annual expenditure of 14,000 rupees. Details of this amount have been asked for, and will be forwarded, if required, to the Government of India.\n\nThe advisability of rearming the levies has been revived by Captain Gurdon. My views on this question—which agree with those of my predecessor, Mr. Dane—are already known to the Government of India. Should an increase in the number of the levies be decided upon, I think there would be no undue risk in providing them at the same time with a better weapon than that they at present possess.\n\nAs regards the other two measures proposed by the Political Agent, they possess the undoubted advantage of taking people out of the country instead of putting money in. The principal obstacle to their success is the obstructive attitude adopted by the Chiefs towards the emigration of their subjects outside their States. The conditions on which the Durbar were willing three years ago, and are still willing, to allow colonization on the Matam Das lands are very reasonable, and it is a pity that the proposal should be thwarted owing to the disfavour with which it is viewed by the Mir of Hunza. It would appear that the scheme is not alternative to the suggested increase of the levies or contingent on the decision of the Government of India as regards the latter. I am therefore urging the Political Agent to use his influence in inducing the Mir to change his present attitude, and to refrain generally from discouraging his subjects from seeking employment in Gilgit and elsewhere. It will be seen from the Political Agent's recent diaries that he has already pressed the Mir to reconsider his views in the matter, and I hope shortly to hear that his arguments have taken effect.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 23 in No. 1.\n\n## PROPOSITION STATEMENT OF HUNZA LEVIES, PRESENT Strength and Expenditure.\n\n### Details.\n\n#### Civil Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan, at 40 rupees per mensem | 40 0 0 | 480 0 0 |\n| Wazir Humayun Beg, at 20 rupees per mensem | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n\n#### Mir's Body Guard.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 10 rupees per mensem | 10 0 0 | 120 0 0 |\n| 12 levies, at 3 rupees per mensem each | 36 0 0 | 432 0 0 |\n\n#### Ordinary Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 13 rupees per mensem | 13 0 0 | 156 0 0 |\n| 1 sub-leader, at 13 rupees per mensem | 13 0 0 | 156 0 0 |\n| 51 levies, at 6 rupees per mensem | 306 0 0 | 3,672 0 0 |\n| 8 section commanders, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 32 0 0 | 384 0 0 |\n| 90 levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 180 0 0 | 2,160 0 0 |\n| 12 special duty allowance, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 48 0 0 | 576 0 0 |\n| 1 Agency levy munshi for Hunza Nagar, pay and ration concessions | 58 4 2 | 699 2 0 |\n\n#### Fighting Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 15 rupees per mensem | 15 0 0 | 180 0 0 |\n| 1 sub-leader, at 13 rupees per mensem | 13 0 0 | 156 0 0 |\n| 5 section commanders, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n| 47 levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 94 0 0 | 1,128 0 0 |\n| 4 handsmen, at 1 rupee per mensem each | 4 0 0 | 48 0 0 |\n\n#### Contingencies for Hunza-Nagar.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Total | 639 2 0 | 7,668 2 0 |\n\n### Total.\n\n| Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1,014 4 2 | 12,173 2 0 |\n\n## Continued.\n\n### Details.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 6 handsmen, at 1 rupee per mensem each | 6 0 0 | 72 0 0 |\n| 21 section commanders, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 84 0 0 | 1,008 0 0 |\n| 1 Agency munshi for Hunza-Nagar, pay and ration concessions | ... | ... |\n| Allowance to Mir's munshi, at 10 rupees per mensem | 10 0 0 | 120 0 0 |\n\n#### Mir's Body Guard.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 10 rupees per mensem | 10 0 0 | 120 0 0 |\n| 20 levies, at 3 rupees per mensem each | 60 0 0 | 720 0 0 |\n| 2 section commanders, at 10 rupees per mensem each | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n\n### Other Expenditures.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cost of rations to levies for a fortnight's musketry training | 125 0 0 | ... |\n| Extra duty pay to levies for a fortnight's musketry training | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n| Prizes for musketry | ... | ... |\n| Contingencies for musketry | 94 0 0 | 1,128 0 0 |\n\n#### Civil Levies in Gughal.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 section commander, at 4 rupees per mensem | 4 0 0 | 48 0 0 |\n| 27 levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 54 0 0 | 648 0 0 |\n| 6 special duty allowance to levies for guarding bridges, &c., at 4 rupees per mensem each | 24 0 0 | 288 0 0 |\n\n### Total.\n\n| Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 525 0 0 | 6,300 0 0 |\n| ... | 14,486 2 0 |\n\nPage 15\n\n## PROPOSITION STATEMENT OF NAGAR LEVIES, PRESENT Strength and Expenditure.\n\n### Details.\n\n#### Civil Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Rajah Sikandar Khan, at 40 rupees per mensem | 40 0 0 | 480 0 0 |\n| Wazir Khuda Amau, at 20 rupees per mensem | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n\n### PROPOSED Strength and Expenditure.\n\n#### Details.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan, at 40 rupees per mensem | 40 0 0 | 480 0 0 |\n| Wazir Humayan Beg, at 20 rupees per mensem | 20 0 0 | 240 0 0 |\n| 250 fighting levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 500 0 0 | 6,000 0 0 |\n| Extra duty pay to 10 levies at Murkashi, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 40 0 0 | 480 0 0 |\n| Cost of rations for above, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 40 0 0 | 480 0 0 |\n| Extra duty pay to 1 section commander at Murkashi, at 4 rupees per mensem | 4 0 0 | 48 0 0 |\n| Cost of rations for above, at 4 rupees per mensem | 4 0 0 | 48 0 0 |\n| 1 subadar of levies, at 25 rupees per mensem | 25 0 0 | 300 0 0 |\n| 5 jamadars of levies, at 16 rupees per mensem each | 80 0 0 | 960 0 0 |\n| 4 section commanders, at 7 rupees per mensem each | 28 0 0 | 336 0 0 |\n\n#### Rajah's Body Guard.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 10 rupees per mensem | 10 0 0 | 120 0 0 |\n| 12 levies, at 3 rupees per mensem each | 36 0 0 | 432 0 0 |\n\n#### Ordinary Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 4 section commanders, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 16 0 0 | 192 0 0 |\n| 80 levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 160 0 0 | 1,920 0 0 |\n| 3 special duty allowances, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 6 0 0 | 72 0 0 |\n\n#### Fighting Levies.\n\n| Details | Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 leader, at 8 rupees per mensem | 8 0 0 | 96 0 0 |\n| 3 section commanders, at 4 rupees per mensem each | 12 0 0 | 144 0 0 |\n| 40 levies, at 2 rupees per mensem each | 80 0 0 | 960 0 0 |\n| 6 handsmen, at 1 rupee per mensem each | 6 0 0 | 72 0 0 |\n\n### Total.\n\n| Monthly Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) | Annual Expenditure (Rs. a. p.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1,079 0 0 | 12,948 0 0 |\n| 460 ... 0 | 5,520 0 0 |\n| 389 ... ... | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Connection \n\nYou will test Muhammad Mo... \n\nYour attention to... \n\ninvite \n\nChamberlain's desirable \n\nthe 24th \n\nCase \n\n20 276 of October 1898 was laid down that an Officer should draw pay at the privileged rate up to and including the day preceding his departure from England or in certain cases up to the day preceding his departure from Continental ports.\n\n(2216/18) \n\nIt was intended to imply that salary at the privileged rate should be drawn up to the date of departure from England. Though not explicitly stated, it was interpreted in Hong Kong in the same way as existing practice, that is, the pay practice is in force in the Colonies in which privileged rates are allowed.\n\nThe despatch intended to clarify that Officers should draw pay at the privileged rate... \n\n...the day preceding his departure... \n\nIt is presumed that it was interpreted in Hong Kong as intended, in line with what was written. The past practice is in force in the Colonies in which privileged rates are allowed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "Muhammad\n\nсо\n\n25618\n\n20 10 10\n\n\"Glenroy\"\n\n339\n\n85. Coburg Road Upper Teddington.\n\nMiddlx.\n\n19.\n\nRr. 24/14/1910.\n\n6.10.\n\nI deeply regret that the Secretary\n\nof the Colonies cannot authorize an advance of the gratuity which the Hong Kong Government are asked to consider,\n\nI beg therefore\n\nto ask that I be allowed\n\nto draw my pension in advance up to\n\nthe end\n\nof the present year,\n\nwhich would be 5 months. This would allow me to tide\n\nover my difficulties and enable me to continue my fight to gain employment until the question\n\nof the gratuity is\n\nsettled. I am sure that it will\n\nbe voted. I would not make this request\n\nif I could avoid it, I have been hard hit\n\nindeed by the Retrenchment Scheme.\n\nThe Under Secretary\n\nof State.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obediently,\n\nAlfred Carker.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "80\n\nYour Committee heard evidence from\n\n1. Mr. H.A. Nisbet, Registrar, Supreme Court.\n\n2. Mr. E.J. Noronha, Manager of the Government Printing Works.\n\n3. Mr. Li Tam Kiu, Administrator in the Estate of Li Ah Shau deceased.\n\n4. Mr. J.W. Lee-Jones, Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.\n\n5. Mr. S.B.B. McElderry, sometime Acting Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.\n\n6. Mr. C.A.D. Melbourne, Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.\n\n7. Mr. Kwok Fuk, Messenger in the Supreme Court Registry.\n\n8. Mr. H.W. Dixon, Superintendent, Money Order Office.\n\n9. Mr. Chan Kwok On, 4th Grade Clerk and Shroff, Supreme Court.\n\n10. Mr. Khawas Khan, 5th Grade Clerk, Post Office.\n\n11. Mr. Muhamad Akbar, sometime 3rd Grade Clerk, Money Order Office.\n\n12. The Honourable Mr. A.C.M. Fletcher, Acting Colonial Treasurer, a member of your Committee, sometime Acting Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, also made a statement.\n\nMr. Alim Khan produced before your Committee a statement in writing in his own defence. The evidence and Mr. Alim Khan's statement are annexed hereto marked Blue \"A\". (E.C. Enclosures 586/54 6.) [23..\n\nThe charges against Mr. Alim Khan are contained in a letter dated 31st October, 1913, from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Alim Khan, a copy of which appears in the Colonial Secretary's Confidential File No. 3656/13 marked Blue \"B\". Mr. Alim Khan's reply thereto is contained in a letter dated 11th November, 1913, from himself to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, the original of which appears in the above quoted file marked Blue \"C\".\n\n5.\n\nYour Committee considers it desirable, at the outset to explain that Mr. Alim Khan was in the ordinary course of official movements transferred to the Post Office department from the Supreme Court Registry on 30th June, 1913, and that the matters which form the subject of the present enquiry were substantially only discovered after he had left his former position which he had occupied for some years. It is also, perhaps, important, here, to note that no money has been in fact lost to Government or so far as can be ascertained to any private person in connection with the questions now under consideration.\n\n6.\n\nIt is perhaps convenient if some observations are here made upon the form and nature of the charges preferred against Mr. Alim Khan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447090, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "187\n\n! a similar letter, being given free access to the Registry for the purpose, but he did not do so, and on enquiry by the Committee the Registrar could find only one letter in which the amount in rupees was not stated, and that one was drafted by Alim Khan subsequently to the date of the draft of this letter in question.\n\nIt is admitted that the sum of $213.93 was paid by the Treasurer to the Registry and that the cheque was handed by the shroff to Alim Khan who cashed it through a messenger of the Registry. Alim Khan states that on the 17th April he took the money in notes to the Money Order Office and there applied for a Money Order to a clerk named Muhammed Akbar. He made out an application form, but Muhammed Akbar asked him to make out two forms, one in a sum of $100 and one in a sum of $113.93, and he accordingly did so, altering the first form from $213.93 to $100.93, and making out a fresh form for $100. Muhammed Akbar had on a former occasion asked him to make out two forms, but he could not remember when that occurred. Muhammed Akbar gave him two receipts which he put with the papers in his office.\n\n12. In a letter dated the 31st July, 1913, the Deputy Commissioner wrote as follows:- \"I have the honour to forward herewith a receipt for Rs. 145 6 0 or $213.93\"; and on the receipt was written \"Receipt of Bust. Genl. for Rs. 145.6.0 equivalent to $213.93\". On receipt of this letter a disparity between the sums in dollars and rupees was noticed and enquiry was set on foot. It was then discovered that on the 14th June a Money Order for Rs. 145.6.0 representing $100, had been sent to the Deputy Commissioner. An application, admittedly in Alim Khan's handwriting, bearing the Post Office Stamp of the 14th June, was in its proper place in the file, and the counter-foil of the receipt was in its proper place in the receipt book.\n\n13. On the 10th September an Indian, whose identity is unknown to the Committee, applied at the Kowloon Post Office for a Money Order for the sum of $113.93, payable to the Deputy Commissioner at Hoshiarpur, and the Order was duly sent. The application, a typewritten one, was in the name of \"The...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "\"The O. A.\" and the receipt was forwarded to the Registrar through the post without covering letter or explanation. In a letter dated the 15th October, 1913, the Deputy Commissioner acknowledged the receipt of a confidential letter of enquiry from the Registrar and stated that he had received the sum of Rs. 165 by Money Order but had not received any further letter in connection therewith.\n\n14.\n\nAlim Khan, when confronted with these admitted facts, gave the following explanation. Muhammed Akbar was notoriously an enemy of his, prepared to go to any length to compass his ruin. Then Alim Khan came, on the 17th April, to the Money Order Office, Muhammed Akbar on the spur of the moment devised an elaborate plot. He was admittedly standing at the counter, with the shroffs in close proximity, but by some means he managed to take and retain Alim Khan's money unnoticed. He asked that two application forms should be made out, and, while Alim Khan left the office for a few minutes to speak to another clerk, he prepared two forged receipt forms which he handed to Alim Khan. The application forms he retained in his personal possession instead of filing them. By the 14th June Muhammed Akbar was aware that it was the intention of the Government to transfer him to the Supreme Court in the place of Alim Khan, and on that date he stamped with the date stamp of the 14th June Alim Khan's original application for $100, and sent the equivalent to India, filling in and retaining a receipt in the name of the Official Administrator.\n\nAlim Khan's statement in this connection is difficult to follow - there is a suggestion that Muhammed Akbar stamped the date on the application on the 17th April, changing the die to the 14th June and Muhammed Akbar's suggested subsequent intention is not clear. It seems however that, according to Alim Khan, Muhammed Akbar sent the money on the 14th June, because on that date he realised he would shortly be in the Registry and so would be able to recover and to destroy the forged receipts which were filed there. He foresaw that it would before long be discovered that the No. O sent was not the equivalent of £213.93, whereupon Alim Khan would...\n\nPage 188\n\n \n\nwas replaced with proper paragraph closing and opening tags, and minor corrections were made to the text, such as correcting \"eceipt\" to \"receipt\", \"adınitted\" to \"admitted\", \"clork\" to \"clerk\", \"Kuan\" to \"Khan\", \"Muhamed\" to \"Muhammed\", \"staped\" to \"stamped\", \"ña.\" to \"No.\", \"Loney\" to \"Money\", \"some\" to \"some\", \"con.ection\" to \"connection\", \"there-with\" to \"therewith\". The original text's formatting and content were preserved as much as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" of 17th August, 1915.\n\n### HONGKONG MUSSALMANS, EXPRESSIONS OF LOYALTY TO KING AND GOVERNMENT.\n\nA meeting of Hongkong Mussalmans was held after the Ramadan Feast Prayer on the 13th inst. Mr. A. F. Argulli presided, and the proceedings were opened by the Chairman reading out and translating a Manifesto regarding the great war from the Ulemas of Egypt to the audience. After commenting on it, he quoted texts from the sacred Koran explaining to the audience that it taught them to be loyal and to avoid sedition and treachery. He also referred to the protection and privileges they enjoyed under British Rule, and quoted the Declaration of His Majesty's Government that the Moslem Holy Places would not be invaded, and also that the choice of a Caliph would be left entirely to the Musalmans; comparing the freedom enjoyed by them in the exercise of their religion with that enjoyed in certain Native States under Hindu rule, and stating that they could not have any reason to be dissatisfied with their rulers. Their religious beliefs were not attacked in any way, there was no case for them to sacrifice themselves at the instigation of the enemies of their King, and the proclamation of Jehad by the Sultan of Turkey should not and could not affect them. They were British subjects, and they were neither treated unjustly, nor were their religious privileges curtailed in any way. The speaker mentioned the tactful and statesmanlike act of His Excellency the Governor in withholding his sanction to allow a certain Missionary to lecture about the prophecy of the fall of Constantinople, and went on to say that he considered that it was the duty of every Moslem British subject to act in word and deed as a humble but loyal and worthy follower of His Imperial Majesty the Kaiser-i-Hind, George V.; and he sincerely hoped that in spite of the misrepresentation by certain individuals of the advice he tendered to his co-religionists in November last, which was now borne out by the Manifesto just read, they would give the heartiest support to the Resolution he was about to propose. This was as follows:—\n\n| Resolution |\n| --- |\n| That all Muslim British subjects, Hongkong born or otherwise, hereby testify their allegiance to His Majesty King George V., act and conduct themselves as loyal subjects, paying due regard to the Laws of the Realm, and detesting and abhorring all and every seditious or treacherous act; and consider all who commit such acts as not only enemies of the Government, but also as enemies of theirs. |\n\nThe Resolution was seconded by Mr. A. B. Suffied, who emphatically endorsed every word uttered by the Chairman as to their duty towards the Government, and stated that he spoke not only for himself but for the Hongkong born Muslims. Messrs. Muhammed Akbar, M. A. Razack, Sirdar Khan, and Jemedar Chiragh Din strongly supported the resolution, and said that they spoke for the Punjabis and other Mussalmans born in India, the Malays, the Pathans, and the Mussalmans of the Hongkong Police Force respectively.\n\nThe vote was put and carried with enthusiasm, and the meeting was closed with three cheers being given for His Majesty the King and also cheers for His Excellency the Governor, which were given at the call of the Chairman.\n\n### Page 534", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 5.\n\n25\n\n(3.) For the reference in section 5 to the 4th day of August, 1914, shall be substituted a reference to the date of this Order, or in respect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.\n\nC. In the application of the Trading with the Enemy Second Amendment Ordinance, 1915:\n-- \n(1.) Sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 shall not apply.\n\n(2.) For the reference in section 8 to the commencement of the present war shall be substituted a reference to the date of this Order, or in respect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.\n\nD. In the application of the Trading with the Enemy Third Amendment Ordinance, 1915:\n- \nSections 5, 6 and 7 shall not apply.\n\nE. In the application of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915:\n- \nThe references in the Order in Council made under the said Ordinance and published in the Gazette of the 7th January, 1916, to the law relating to trading with the enemy shall be deemed to include references to the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916.\n\n## No. 193.\n\nOrder made by the Governor in Council under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1916), on the 11th day of May, 1916,\n\nThe list of persons and bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, with whom trading is prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy (Neutral Countries) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, which was made on the 28th day of April, 1916, is hereby amended by the variation and addition of the names set forth in the Schedule hereto.\n\n### Schedule.\n\n#### ADDITIONS to List.\n\n| Country/Region | Name | Address |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ARGENTINE REPUBLIC | Bunge, Ernesto A., and Born, J. | B.Mitre 226, Buenos Aires |\n| | Hardy, E., & Co. (formerly Hardy and Mühlenkamp) | Buenos Aires and Rosario |\n| | Weil Hermanos & Co. | Buenos Aires |\n| MOROCCO | Jahn (or Yahn) & Toledano | Laraiche |\n| NETHERLANDS | Van Perlstein & Co. | Singel, 512, Amsterdam |\n| | Abdul Rahim Arab | |\n| PERSIA | Agha Muhammad Yusuf Khabbez Beglaroff | Kazvin |\n| | Agha Muhammad Ismail Isfahani | Meshed |\n| | Amin-ut-Tujjar (alias Agha Isfahansi) | Ispahan |\n| | Baue | Tehran |\n| | Bonati (Schweriu) | Tehran |\n| | Christodoroff, Zares | Resht |\n| | Eger Brothers | Meshed |\n| | Farbwerke vorm. Meister Laucius & Brunig | Ispahan |\n| | Fars Company | Shiraz |\n| | Haji Abbas Arab | Ispahan |\n| | Haji Abdur Rahman Shirazi | Bombay and Shiraz |\n| | Haji Amin | Ispahan |\n| | Haji Goulam Hussein, Sons of | Resht |\n| | Haji Lutfali Tabrizi | Tehran |\n| | Haji Muhammad Reza | Ispahan |\n| | Haji Mihammed Ibrahim (Malik-ut-Tujjar) | Ispahan |\n| | Haji Muhammad Ibrahim Tehrani Sakkon | Tehran |\n| | Haji Mubammad Welinkani | Kerman |\n| | Haji Saleh Arab, Successors of, viz.-Haji Amin, Haji Mohammed Reza and Zafar | Ispahan |\n| | Herold, M. | Meshed |\n| | Hoffman | Meshed |\n| | Ismaloff (Georges & Jean) | Kazvin |\n| | Ittahadie. Fils | Tehran |\n| | Keprielli | Meshed |\n| | Lascaridles Frères | Resht |\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n28th April, 1916.\n\nA. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## List of Firms\nMaison Hollandaise (Prins, C. F.), Tehran.\nMalik-ut-Tujjar (Haji Muhammad Ibrahim), Ispahan.\nMeshedi Ismail Salmasi, Kerman.\nMeshedi Goulam Ali, Resht.\nMinassiantz, A., Tehran.\nMir Abdul Baghi & Sons, Kermanshah.\nMissirian, Kerman.\nMuhammad Mehdi Samsar Isfahan.\nMuhammad Saleh, Resht.\nMustafa Husseini, Tehran.\nPapadopoulo, Hariles, Resht.\nPascalidi Frères, Resht.\nPersische Teppiche A/G, Ispahan.\nPrins, C. F. (Maison Hollandaise), Tehran.\nRahim Ittahadie (Ittahadie Fils), Tehran.\nRoever, Wilhelm, Shiraz.\nSadik Afshar, Yezd.\nSafa & Co., Limited, Bushire.\nSeskiel Nawi, Tehran.\nSociété du Tombac, Ispahan.\nSofer, D. J. & S., Hamadan.\nTabibian, M., Resht.\nTehallis, Demetri, Resht.\nTehallis, Leandros, Resht.\nTehallis, Sotiri, Resht.\nWassmuss.\nWonckhaus & Co., Bushire.\nYavash Oghli, Resht.\nZafar, Ispahan.\nZarour, Sion, Hamadan.\nZilka, Abraham Joseph, Kermanshah.\n\nDeuss, Paul.\nMebel, Beira.\n\n## PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA\nVillardo, Ricarto, Beira.\nVithaljee, Bhatt, Lourenço Marques.\n\n## SWEDEN\nHarmsen, Wilhelm & Co., Stockholm.\n\n## REMOVALS FROM LIST\n\n### NETHERLANDS\nVan Perlstein & Co., Singel, 532, Amsterdam.(a)\n\n### SWEDEN\nHanson, Wilhelm & Co., Vasag, 6, Stockholm.(a)\n\n## COUNCIL CHAMBER\n11th May, 1916.\n\nA. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.\n\n(a) These entries appear in a corrected form in the list of additions to the schedule.\n\nPage 30385\n\n**REG** 27 JUN 16\nIn **Importation Exportation**\n\nOrd co No 35 of 1915 - copy Corrise with AM. Herd at Than Satel it is not necessary to circulate any Lists to Tapper'z Cov, as it is Black List large to not ming in to HK.\n\n?? Dept 23 Aug 168.\n\n\"My (without uncle) Cagher. Conf 21001, 47.362.\n\nI do not think it probable that the system will lead to difficulties and anomalies, though criticisms may follow.\n\nThe fact that it is not reaching cargo that H. Kong wake... to indicate have beam cameomments.\n\n(90092) Wt. 35800-8. 45,000 12/15. BM 8.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 640, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "# CANADA AND INDIA\n\nThe British Empire is apparently a disqualification. I do not wish to speak of retaliation, but, in my humble opinion, no so-called reciprocity will be worth anything if the colonist be not taught to respect the golden rule and to realize that the Indian's country is not for him to exploit at his sweet will. I have every hope that since out of evil cometh good, one beneficial result of this war will be that racial antagonism will to a large extent die out, and the white man will recognize that the brown or black man who fought side by side with him and shed his blood without stint does not deserve to be, and cannot be, despised. The time is coming for the adjustment of our differences in a true statesmanlike spirit, which will not divorce morality from politics and which will steer clear not only of all petty selfish prejudices, but also of all narrow, short-sighted, and degrading considerations. A fair settlement is all that we ask for.-Dr. Satish Chandra Banerji, in the **Indian Review**.\n\n## QUESTION UNDER CONSIDERATION\n\nIn regard to the \"representation\" referred to in the above article, and which was reprinted in full in the preceding number of **Canada and India** under the title \"The Status of Indians Within the Empire,\" this statement is made in the **Indian Review**, July: \"In connection with the memorial submitted to the Government on the question of the position of Indians in the colonies, and particularly in Canada, by the United Provinces Congress Committee, a reply has been received from the Government of the United Provinces, which says the whole question is under consideration of the Government of India, and matters dealt with in the memorial will receive their earnest attention in any negotiations which may be undertaken with the Colonial Governments with a view to arriving at a satisfactory solution of the difficulties which have arisen.\"\n\n## EMIGRATION AFTER THE WAR\n\nThe following expression of opinion regarding Indian emigration has an added interest because taken from an Anglo-Indian paper: \"The Governments of the Dominions must be prepared to cope with that spirit of adventure, and if they are wise they will prepare well beforehand, not in the old compromising spirit, but in a desire to deal justly and honourably with a proud race. The Government of India, too, must prepare by affording facilities for opening up Mesopotamia, that land of ancient glory and fertility, and by encouraging enterprise in the borderlands of India. It must remove restrictions that hamper the mobility of labour and operate against industries that need workers. But when the Government of India has done all that is possible to do to keep the labour it so badly needs itself in India, there will still remain a number of adventurous souls who will turn to distant lands. These are the men with whom our Dominions must deal, and if the bitterness of the past is to be avoided an early endeavour should be made to arrive at a fair and honourable scheme for their admission.\"-**Calcutta Englishman**.\n\n## INDIA IN FINAL WAR SETTLEMENT\n\nCommenting on why India should have a voice in the final settlement of the issues of this war, the **Bombay Chronicle** says: \n\n\"In view of the beginning that has already been made in the new relations of intimate confidence and consultation with the Dominions, it is but natural that India should not only expect a measure of confidence to be extended to her, but that she should be anxious to know why responsible Ministers are loath to assure her equally with the Dominions that her aspiration will not be ignored. One would prefer to leave the public discussion of these matters on one side at the present moment, and there is every desire to avoid controversy and embarrassment to the Government, but what is to be done when we find the Minister in charge of the interests of the colonies going out of his way amidst the plaudits of the public to announce the new rights and privileges to be enjoyed by the Dominions as a direct response to their services and loyal devotion to the Mother Country in the war, while the Minister for India is silent as to the part which India is to be allowed to play? In the face of the loquacity of Mr. Bonar Law, the silence of Mr. Chamberlain is likely to be given a sinister interpretation in this country. It is incumbent upon the Secretary of State to announce whether India is to be consulted or not, even if he is not prepared to tell us in what form she will be represented in the Imperial Council Chamber.\"\n\n## WHAT BRITAIN SHOULD DO\n\nNow, what is the dominant note of the French civilization? It is liberty, equality, and fraternity. Perhaps it stands on an even higher moral plane than the British civilization. This high standard of moral conception of human relationship was attained by the French nation after it had passed through the volcanic stage of the Revolution. It is the next higher stage to the ideal aimed at by British culture, and is not antagonistic, but allied to it. The whole system of French Government is based on the recognition of this ideal, and the spirit of its administration is permeated by it. In the words of Mr. Cloudesley Brereton in the **Hibbert Journal**, in the modern French Empire, there is no second-class citizens. Rightly or wrongly, there is no colour line in French citizenship. The inhabitant of Senegal, of Tahiti, or Madagascar, is treated, is regarded, just as much a French citizen as the inhabitants of Paris or Marseilles; and, what is more important, he regards himself as such, and is proud of belonging to a nation which he hears described as the finest in the world. This appeal is not first and foremost to his desire for good Government, or even to his sense of justice. It is to his sense of dignity as a human creature. It is to this ideal to which the British Government must approximate in order to achieve a full measure of success in Britain's associations with India.-The **Allahabad Leader**.\n\n## A NOTABLE BIRTHDAY\n\nMr. Dadabhai Naoroji, who is called India's Grand Old Man and the father of Indian political reform, saw his 90th birthday on September 4th. It is comparatively rare for an Indian public man to attain great age, and since his retirement some years ago his birthday has been regarded as a national anniversary. Some of the leading English papers had interesting references to the event.\n\n### THE FIRST INDIAN M.P.\n\nIt is certainly interesting to recall that the little white-headed Parsee who was an energetic London member in the last Gladstonian House of Commons, was born so long ago as 1825, more than thirty years before the rule of the East India Company was merged in that of the Crown, and a long time before the gallant Sikhs, now fighting with us in Flanders and the Dardanelles, were incorporated in the British Empire. Mr. Naoroji, who kept up his activities until he was past four score, now lives in retirement near Bombay. The Viceroy always sends him a birthday telegram, and so do many other dignitaries, who bear no malice towards an old opponent, and like to think of the aged agitator as in these days a very fervent supporter of the Imperial cause.-The **Pall Mall Gazette**.\n\n### ADVOCATE OF GREAT REFORMS\n\nHe has lived to see a great part of the programme for which he fought adopted by the Imperial Government and much of his criticism of the economic basis of the Indian revenue system admitted by all impartial enquirers. When Mr. Naoroji began the labours that lasted without intermission until his final return to India, eight years ago, his countrymen were not admitted to the Indian Civil Service, or even to the Legislative Councils. They sit now in the Viceroy's Cabinet and preside over departments of State, are elected by popular franchise to seats in the Councils, and not seldom dominate the University Senates and the High Court bench. There is still a great deal to be done, as the war has made everybody realize, before the Government is brought into harmony with the reasonable claims of the Indian people. But it is rare indeed for any reformer to enjoy so great a measure of fulfilment as this fine old Indian can reflect upon to-day.-The **Manchester Guardian**.\n\n(The University of Bombay conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on Mr. Naoroji the other day.)\n\n## CANADA\n\n### INDIA AND IMPERIAL CONFERENCE\n\nReuter's Agency at Ottawa has been busy of late. On September 23rd the following appeared in the Canadian papers: \n\nA special despatch from Simla announces that India's place in the councils of the Empire was discussed at an important meeting of the Imperial Legislative Council today, and that a resolution will be forwarded to London requesting that measures be taken to have India represented at the next Council of the Empire, as are the various overseas Dominions and dependencies.\n\nThe resolution, which was moved by the Hon. Khan Bahadur Mian Muhammad Shafi, asked that India in future be officially represented at conferences of the British Empire, the request to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for India.\n\n### VICEROY IN SYMPATHY\n\nLord Hardinge, the Viceroy, affirmed that the Government of India gladly accepted this important resolution, which had his warmest sympathy, adding that if Council adopted it his Government would readily comply with the recommendation. The Viceroy proceeded to recapitulate what had occurred at previous conferences.\n\nThe ultimate decision at the next meeting of the conference rested with the conference itself. If India were admitted, said his Excellency, it would appear reasonable that she should be represented by the Secretary and one or two other officials from India.\n\nLord Hardinge dwelt upon the difficulties and obstacles in the way of carrying out the request, but laid emphasis upon the fact that the Imperial Government, without committing themselves regarding its principles or details, would give most careful consideration to the Legislative Council's resolution, although the ultimate decision of the Imperial Government must necessarily depend largely upon the attitude of the other members of the conference. He thought this pledge eminently satisfactory, as showing due appreciation of India's claims, to which, he trusted, the Governments of the overseas Dominions would give sympathetic consideration.\n\n### BRITAIN'S BEST CUSTOMER\n\nMuch had happened since the last Imperial Conference, said the Viceroy, and India's size and population, her wealth, her military resources, and her patriotism demanded suitable representation. She could not be disregarded when great Imperial issues were debated in which she was concerned. To discuss questions of the defence of the Empire without counting upon India, he declared, would be ignoring the value of the Empire's greatest military asset, outside the United Kingdom itself. To discuss trade questions without India would be disregarding Britain's best customer. To concede India direct representation in future Imperial Conferences would be no revolutionary or far-reaching concession to Indian opinion or to her just claims.\n\n\"I feel confident,\" said Lord Hardinge in conclusion, \"that when the question is placed in its true light before the Governments of the Dominions they will regard it from the widest angle of vision, from which we hope other Indian questions may be viewed in the near future, so that the people of India may, in the words of Mr. Asquith, feel that they are conscious members of a living partnership extending all over the world under the same flag.\"\n\n### INDIA'S PLACE IN THE EMPIRE\n\nIt is right to mention here that India in a sort of way has been represented at the meetings of the Imperial Conference by the official class, but what the Indian public now want is an Indian representative of the Indian people. This is shown by the unanimous way in which the Indian members of the Council asked for it in the Council chamber.\n\n### COMMENTS OF THE CANADIAN PRESS\n\n| Newspaper | Comment |\n|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| **Toronto Star** | \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon...\" |\n| | \"Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada?...\" |\n| **Toronto World**| \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request...\" |\n| **Mail and Empire** | \"The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire...\" |\n| **Toronto Globe**| \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace...\" |\n\nThe **Toronto Star** referring to it says: \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon. At present the conference is one of self-governing commonwealths only. But it is purely advisory, has no legislative power, and there does not appear to be any insuperable difficulty in the way of allowing representatives of India to take part in a conference. Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada? The Imperial Legislative Council of India wants this, and their request is supported by Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy. Questions relating to Indian migration into the colonies have come before the conference, but no representative of India was present. Now, the way to settle this question of Indian migration is by friendly discussion between the representatives of India and those of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.\"\n\nThe **Toronto World** writes: \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request that India be hereafter represented at the Imperial Conference. When acknowledging its receipt, Mr. Chamberlain stated that inasmuch as the composition of the conference is a matter for the conference itself, the overseas Dominions must be consulted before a more definite reply can be given. Few, however, of those conscious of the evolution and development of the British Empire will refuse sympathetic consideration of the claim made by the Indian Government, or fail to recognize that it can be supported on real and weighty grounds.\"\n\nThe **Mail and Empire** of Toronto expresses the opinion that \"The Imperial Legislative Council will forward to London a resolution in favour of the admission of representatives of India to the Imperial Conference. The petition is not likely to be denied. Before replying to it the British Government will doubtless communicate with the several Dominion Governments, whose concurrence will decide the matter. The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire.\"\n\nWhilst the **Toronto Globe** comments thus: \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace on the minds of the Indian peoples. The cheerful loyalty and self-sacrificing courage of the Hindu soldiers in the war have made it inevitable that some change shall take place in their status as citizens.\"\n\n### CANADA MUST BE COSMOPOLITAN\n\nAn Italian in Welland writes to the **Star** protesting against a real estate handbill in which a certain locality is described as desirable because foreigners are barred. Our correspondent is quite right in his view that the alliance of which we now form part ought to break down instead of increasing racial prejudice. It need hardly be said that we should be generous to the Hindus, who are members of the British Empire, and whose brethren are fighting for our cause in France and at the Dardanelles. A broad-minded Imperialist must necessarily be a cosmopolitan, absolutely free from racial prejudice.-The **Star**.\n\n### IS IT FAIR?\n\nWhen our Aryan forefathers broke up their homes in Southern Asia, some of them went to India. When that Empire was added to Britain, Queen Victoria gave these, our Indian cousins, her pledge (and her son Edward and her grandson George have since reiterated that pledge), in which she said: \"We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects.\"\n\nIn 1911, an ex-soldier from India who had settled in Canada went home to bring out his wife and child. On his return they were detained under bond of $1,000, and were admitted after three months' litigation, but only as an act of grace.\n\nAbout 2,500 of these fellow-citizens from India are in Canada, the great majority of them being Sikhs. Only five of these men's wives have thus far been admitted. Yet they are the husbands of one wife each; they are distinguished loyalists, having saved the Empire at the time of the mutiny. They have fought in Asia and Africa, and are now fighting in Europe for our \"free institutions\" with a bravery unsurpassed, and are showing a generosity which is the admiration of the Empire.\n\nIs it not time for us to think what our treatment of them on the western coast looks like to them? Is it not time for our Government to \"clean house\" in this matter? Turkish Mohammedans, who would have several wives if they dared, enjoy all the privileges of other Europeans in this Dominion, and are allowed to bring wives and children here; why should our own fellow-citizens, who are bearing the burdens of the Empire and are superior to the Mohammedan in every way, have their wives and children excluded?-**Public Health Journal**.\n\n### SIKH CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE\n\nJ. A. M. writes: \"Before even the claims of the Japanese, 'an Imperial ally,' come the Imperial rights of the Sikh, a British citizen. In his case, more than in that of the Japanese citizen, has been 'seen the conflict of Imperial and domestic considerations.' And whilst in the handling of the case of the alien there was at least a savor of diplomacy, in the handling of that of the Sikh there has been little but prevarication. Would it not be possible at this most interesting time, when Sikh and Canadian blood has flowed freely on the Flanders fields, in a blood brotherhood of opposition to the present-day enemies of humanity and freedom to speak out once more a word on their behalf?\"\n\nFor those interested who want to know more about India, we call attention to the following books, which, as well as copies of **Canada and India**, can be obtained from McAinsh & Co., Ltd., Publishers, 4 College Street, Toronto: \n1. `Web of Indian Life` by the Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble)\n2. `Religion of the Sikhs` by Dorothy Field.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475522, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "Muhammad Ahmad\n\nwaits\n\nid he\n\nالاسم الام\n\nالمندي\n\nwartha.\n\nMuhammad\n\nastat\n\nAŵû bi ni\n\n༣\n\n50\n\n57. Kensington Garden Square 514 Bayswater. W.2.\n\n22.6.17.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State.\n\nfear fir\n\nI have the honour to resign my appointment as Nursing Sister on the staff of the Government Civil Hospital, Hong Kong; so that I may work under The War Office for the duration of the war.\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient servant, Edith Ridbey.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of His Majesty's Forces who have died in the China Command, since the outbreak of War 1914.\n\n| Regiment-al No. | Rank and Name | Unit | Date & Place of death | Place of Burial | Whether 'grave' is permanently or temporarily marked |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Major de Courcy Ireland | 36th Sikhs | 28. 1.15, Peking | Peking | Permanently |\n| | Subedar Sande Khan | 18th Infantry | 2. 8.16, Shan-hai-kuan | Shan-hai-kuen | |\n| 2789 | Recruit Sandoria Khan | | 11. 8.15, Tientsin | Musalman Cem. Tientsin | Temporarily |\n| #2714 | Cr.Hav. Hingu Khan | | 15. 5.16 | | |\n| /2131 | Sepoy Khan Muhammed | | 21.6.16 | | |\n| ✓2919, ✓1898 | Reser-vist Ismail Khan | | 28.6.17 | | |\n| | Sepoy Munshi Khan | | | | |\n| | Reser-vist Sannde Khan | | | | |\n| 2781 | Sepoy Miran Bakhsh | | 25. 3.18 | Muhammedan Cem. Peking | |\n| 2509, #2358 | Shahzada Khan Ahmad Ali | | 21. 1.19, 17. 7.18 | | |\n| | | | 9.11.18, 24.10.18 | | |\n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Regiment -al No.\n\nList of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of His Majesty's Forces who have died in the China Command, since the outbreak of War 1914.\n\n| Regiment-al No. | Rank and Name | Unit | Date & Place of death | Place of Burial |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Major de Courcy Ireland | 36th Sikhs | 28.1.15, Peking | Peking |\n| 2789 | Recruit Sendoria Khon | 18th Infantry | 11.8.15, Tientsin | Tientsin |\n| 2714 | Sepoy flingu Khan | | 15.5.16 | |\n| | Khan Muhammad | | 21.6.16 | |\n| *2131 | Rezer-vist Ismail Khan | | 28.6.17 | |\n| **2919 | Sepoy lunghi Khan | | 25.3.18 | |\n| 1898 | Resor-vist Sannde Khan | | | |\n| 2781 | Sepoy kiran Bakhsh | | | |\n| *2509 | Shahzada Khon | | 24.10.18 | |\n| | | | 9.11.18 | |\n| 2358 | Ahmad Ali | | 17.7.18, Peking | Muhammedan Cem., Peking |\n| | | | 21.1.19 | |\n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.\n\nSando Khan, Subedar, 18th Infantry, died 2.8.16 at Shan-hai-kuan, buried at Shan-hai-kuan.\n\nWhether 'grave' is permanently or temporarily marked: Tientsin salinan Cem. Temporarily.\n\n#414 Cr.Hav. \n\nTIENTSIN. \n\nPage 491 \n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "There is, however, one point with regard to which we must insist on a slight modification of the proposed agreement as a condition of our adherence to it. Considerable quantities of these drugs are imported as Government medical stores for re-export to countries outside India where Indian troops, political officers, etc., are employed. In these circumstances, it would not be possible for us to certify of any consignment imported on Government account that it is not for re-export, as a portion of it might well be re-exported. We therefore propose that in respect of consignments imported by a Government department on Government account the certificate which will accompany the indent for supply should contain no assurance that the consignment will not be re-exported.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSIR,\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servants,\n\n(Signed) CHELMSFORD.\nRAWLINSON.\nG. S. BARNES.\nW. H. VINCENT.\nMUHAMMAD SHAFI.\nW. M. HAILEY.\nT. H. HOLLAND.\nB. N. SARMA.\nT. B. SAPRU.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "# No.115.\n\nSir,\n\n**British Legation,**\n\n91 Tehran, \n\nFebruary 26th 1924\n\nWith reference to my Despatch No.596 dated December 18th last to the Marquess Curzon, and with respect to the confiscation by the Persian frontier Authorities of the British passports of Haji Muhammad Bean Nemazi and his son, I have the honour to transmit to you copy of a Despatch No.6 dated January 15th last from His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Shiraz, in which gives fuller details respecting the national status of Mr. Nemazi.\n\nIn view of the question of dual nationality involved and pending the receipt of your instructions in reply to my above quoted Despatch, beg leave to suggest that Messrs. Nemazi should travel on Persian passports to Bombay and Karachi and then obtain fresh British passports for their onward journey to Hongkong. As however a precedent is involved I beg leave to request your instructions by telegram.\n\nA copy of this despatch is being transmitted to Mr. Chick.\n\nI have the honour to be with the highest respect, Sir.\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**Right Honourable J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P.**\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE.**\n\nPage 1 \n`11281 1802427 69,000 11/29— McC---E 263`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## British Consulate\nJanuary 15th, 1924\n\nAs indicated in my despatch No. 90 of the 5th November 1923, I have the honour to give you the following particulars regarding the naturalisation of HAJI MUHAMMAD HAFIZ NAMAZI, for his original naturalisation certificate has been forwarded from Hongkong and produced to me.\n\nThe certificate is No. 6 under the 'British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914', and is dated 17th July 1916.\n\n[Consular Instructions Chapter XXV paragraph 4(11) state: \"Certificates of Naturalisation granted under the Act of 1914 confer what is known as Imperial naturalisation, and a person holding such a certificate is entitled in foreign countries to all the privileges of a British subject (but see paragraphs 24(e) and 28). Section 8 of the 1914 Act gave the power to grant such certificates to the Government of any British possession.\"]\n\nSection 5 specifies \"as to the issue of British passports in such cases\" (i.e., Dual Nationality where original nationality is retained under the law of Persia); see Chapter XXVI paragraph 10.\n\nChapter XXVI paragraph 10 states: \"Persons of Dual Nationality. British passports may in general now be issued to British subjects possessing a second nationality in all countries, and need bear no special endorsement. The following cases, however, form exceptions to this rule.\n\n\"(1) British passports may not be issued to British subjects of dual nationality in the country of their...\n\nMr. P. L. Loraine, Bart., C.M.G.\nHis Majesty's Minister", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## LOT\n\n\"their second nationality in cases where the Government of that country claims exclusive jurisdiction over such persons and interposes formal objection to the grant of British passports to them while they are within such jurisdiction.\n\nFootnote:- this provision should not be interpreted as an Instruction to approach the authorities concerned with a view to ascertaining their attitude in advance in regard to such cases of this nature no may arise. It may be assumed that they will not object to the issue of British passports in these cases unless and until such objection is in fact raised.\"\n\n3. The certificate of naturalisation is signed by Sir E. Stubbs, Governor of Hongkong, and countersigned by the late Mr A. Bonar Law. \n\nOther particulars are: \n| Particulars | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name | Haji Mohamed Hassan Namazie |\n| Address | No 1, Dos Voeux Road, Victoria, Hongkong |\n| Occupation | General Merchant and Commission Agent |\n| Born | Shiraz, Province of Fars, Persia, March 16, 1859 |\n| Married to | Rubab Namazes, nee Rubab Wehdashti |\n| Parents | Haji Mohamed Ali Hemayati, Khadijah Namazed (Zarsiana) |\n| Children | Ahmad Namazi, born 13th Novr 1901 (son); Sophie Namazi, born 13th March 1903 (daughter) |\n\nHaji Muhammad Hasan Hasani further informs me that he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Hongkong in 1921.\n\n5. As stated in paragraph 3 of my despatch No 96, Mr Ahmed Namazi, the son, was born in Hongkong, and is therefore, as described in his cancelled passport of 1918, a British subject by birth as well as under his father's naturalisation certificate. The exception quoted under Dual Nationality in Chapter XXVI, paragraph 10 appears to cover such a case also; but in Persia, there are not a few Indian subjects of Persian ancestry to whom British passports are commonly issued and protection...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## British Legation, Tehran, March 20th 1924.\n\n96\n\nWith reference to your circular telegram ending with your Para. 4, Loraine's Despatch to you No. 115 dated 16th February last, I have the honour to inform you that the Persian Government, which had previously intimated this Legation that the confiscated British passports of Haji Muhammad Hassan Maleki and his son had been sent to the Persian Consul General in India, has now informed me that instructions have been sent to the Persian representative in India to transmit the passports in question to the Persian Legation, London, for delivery to the persons concerned.\n\nI have the honour to be with the highest respect,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Signed) E. K. Rawson\n\nThe Right Honourable \nL. C. M. S. Amery, M.P. \nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nColonial Office. \n1802427 87,000 11/3-MEO-E253", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": ".Dubben (vol. 13\n\nail: 10.19. 14. 221\n\n9. Ishar Singh of Bhambi pura, district Ludhiana, formerly of the Hong Kong Singapore Artillery. Believed to have gone to Shanghai.\n\nof Kufri, 10. Sher Muhammad, s/o Fatteh Khan district Shahpur. Believed to have gone to Shanghai.\n\n11. Bachittar Singh, a railway employee. district Probably 8/0 Ganda Singh of Nathowal, Ludhiana. Not to be confused with a man of the same name employed by the Asiatic Petroleum Company.\n\n12. Sawan Singh alias Lall Singh, an ex-langri of the Hong Kong Singapore Artillery.\n\n13. Sham Singh of Jhabbal, formerly of Shanghai. Has returned to Shanghai and has a possible connection with the Ghadr party.\n\n14. Sarwan Singh, identity as yet not ascertained. Employed as watchman by a German at Tungshan (close to Canton) and believed to be anti-British. Is one of the present ringleaders. Knows Chinese.\n\n9. Though Communist propaganda has made considerable progress in parts of Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies, and Labour troubles are not unknown in Singapore, the Malay Peninsula as a whole is still immune from the Bolshevik virus.\n\nThe population of the Peninsula is very mixed and consists mainly of Malays, Chinese and Indians. Taking into consideration males only, the Indian element accounts for about three-sixteenths of the total population, the Chinese and Malays being equally represented.\n\nThe Malays have no political consciousness and may be ignored. The Indians comprise Pathans, Sikhs, and Punjabi Muhammadans, men from the Ganges basin...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506190, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## CF 13188/26 \nHONG KONG \n\nFrom \nJonsign Office. \n\n**CO 129 / 498/18** \n\nCLOSED UNTIL \n:: \nDate \nF \nJUL \n88 \n\n30 June 1926 \nActivities of Staji Muhanimed Hassan Neming \n\nPrevious paper \n(Minutes within) \nFo lotur \n\nSubsequent paper \nAn Passing `7/2` \nin \nSin Efridle `8/10` \n\nPUT BY \nCR \nWee731–15m `11/25 LEW.` | (`E. 2337`). \n\n**NOT TO BE TURNED INSIDE OUT.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Sir R. Delevingne spoke to little time about the return to H.M. reported in `88839` `9298`. He stated that a despatch might be sent to you suggesting that the H.M. Gov. does not relax its vigilance with any facilities with regard to this family. The traffic will enable them to grant their friends opportunities. I promised to prepare it within 10 weeks. \n\nSir R. Delevingne is engaged with Mr. ... often referring to ... J. Parkin `5/3`. I was intending to submit it first, that it is ... abed. This paragraph `8` of my original `XCR(23965/14)`, a despatch of `19/6/24` & per-net para of `49256/24` which was sent to you in `1924` Open Court, makes it illegal for anyone anywhere (whether within the Colony or elsewhere) to deal or \"procure\" ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "without \n\nL \n\nûience issued by the Hong Kong \nyouth. \n\nand \nboth Namazi \nmis \nPuro \nLoves \n(the me \nin charge of \nthe fin \nHK \n& the \nmue \nPersia) \nhave declared \nthat \nmice \nthe passage \nout \nof this \nthis Order. \n\nThe \nHK. firm \nhas fame \nthe opening \nof ummiers. (They \nrequired \nconnection with \na \nûience \nlast year \nto \ncontract \nsupply opin \na \nJapanese Cont. \nTo Formosa). \n\nHid \nSuice firm (we understand) \nis considerable. \nCo \ndoes \nnot \nrefuse \nany \nfacilities \nwh. \nconnectionn \nto \nlegitimate trade, \nis \nrather high-handed \nPremier of the firm Travelling \nwith their \nmay \nbe required \nfor legitimate business. \ne.g. They \ncan be easily \ned. \nMoreover \nit \nis less \na \nrefusal \nwt. \nengaging in \nreally prevent them from \nthe open trappe if they \ntransact their \nbusiness \nto \nEne \nthrough \nagent \nit \nwt. \nLeem \nuiposible \nto deny facilities to \nevery person \nsuspected of \nwine \nEng \nmight \nA \nconceivably \nassociate \ncourse. \nOn the other hand, \nSimons \nConson. \nbenness. \nLic. \nhe \nNemari. \nFlu \napplies to their legitimate \nThe \ngrane \nfinin \nthey \ned. still \nif \nmember \ndenie trancing facilities \nLandin.A \nthan's \ngitimate uusiness through agents. \n\nI do not \none \nJ. Passin \n\"/7 \nknow how we can represe \nNemazee travelling facilities \nwere [x e.g. to go to Shanghai]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Description of doing \n\ndoes openly \n\nK \n\nwhat his brother \n\nlawfully under Y \n\nand then reiterate administration. The \n\ndespatch herewith is as far as \n\n... \n\naugment & go. \n\n### 2.2.26 \n\nAldis \n\n2. Md. Persino (S.O.) \n\n16 July 1926 \n\nSee amendments suggested by \n\nM. Delevingne. \n\nI have \n\nmarked in those which are objectionable from the CO point of view. \n\nIt will however be seen \n\nthat \n\nhe \n\nhas noted \n\na sentence (on \n\nthe \n\nlines \n\nof \n\nthe memo) which underlines \n\nout \n\nyour \n\ntask \n\nwith regard to Govt. travelling facilities etc. \n\nI await your reply \n\n...\n\n[? Disp. \n\n265. \n\nwishes to \n\npress \n\n3 to Lo Perrino \n\n4. F.O. \n\nto on Perming. \n\nto \n\nJer \n\n16 \n\n10/7 \n\nhis point]. \n\nwhether for M.d. \n\n19 July 1926 \n23 July 1926 \n\n### 5. Ses M. Delevingne \n\n23 July 1926", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \nI remain convinced by Sir M. Delevingne's letter of 23/7.\n\n(a) The cries are entirely different from those existing at Mie tinne.\n\n40.23965/24 and 4.0.49282/24 distinctions were given to you in 1924, admitted by shipping circles. Then wholesale opium was smuggled to the F.E. (though not contrary to the Ips. Opin Orda), and it remained to be seen whether he would stand the strain of the law abiding instincts.\n\nThe new HK Orda Regulations have resulted in a careful scrutiny of his business. As a result, it is claimed (& nothing but the merest suspicion is produced to the contrary) that he has been operating in the Persian Gulf.\n\n(b) In the past, he has not had to infringe the HK Ordinance, and it is unlikely that he will equally infringe it now. He has always been careful to abide by the HK Ordinance for fear of being caught.\n\nWe are of the opinion that it is shown in the annexed memo that the law has been tightened up.\n\n(c) It ought to be very easy to catch him if he starts dealing in opium again. Although this is not strictly relevant, it is desirable to observe that Sir M. Delevingne's view is that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \nHe is a wealthy shipowner & merchant legitimate trade (inter alia a good part of the pilgrim traffic) and is a well-known member of society, prominent in philanthropic work.\n\nThe Count is a respected member of the Mohammedan community. No Asiatic looks upon dealing (as the Note does) with disdain & when his illicit transactions are \"ostensibly legal\" (Gov. `18919/14`) since he shipped goods to Nacas and other places (where import is allowed) & Persia (where export was allowed).\n\nI therefore propose that dispatches be sent on the lines above. I annex memo giving my reasons on the case of the Campm'yo. I regret to be unable to affirm anti-Narcotics ague... \n\nP.T.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506196, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Sai 12. D.\n\nNemasi Businesses have branches of Contive, though they all come under the same umbrella, operating in various fields. Villanin suggests that as far as I can ascertain, there is no absolute evidence that Nemasi is independent, rather it is implied in the way some persons (e.g., the J.J. Saying) refer to it. A telegram from S.S. Kw suggests a business relationship.\n\nWe have recently learned that there is nothing about the relationship between the Konci and M.A. Namazic, SAL, Singapore, and the fact that H.M. Nemari is the agent for Sams beyond that the Singapore office implies independence. We might reply to Su J. Wilom.\n\nI send this on as mentioned in this point, Sii M.D. proposed alone. Yes.\n\nJouncin 26\n\nThe Home Secretary may take it up personally with the S. $75. Briefly, the point is this. Because they suspect Nemazi of illicit dealings in Opium, & because his family carry...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506197, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Page 9\nThe Stone office is running an export business which is perfectly lawful there, but we are being asked to instruct the Governor of Hong Kong to prevent him from carrying on his legitimate business as a merchant, and we refuse to do this without proof that Nemazi is breaking the law. Submit proof.\n\nWe are right. See draft letter to the Secretary of State. \nf.b. 27.7.26.\n\nI agree with Sir F. Frindle's minute (\"A\") and I think the despatch should go as amended in ink: and that Sir Delevingne should be told that as we cannot go further. I am sorry you have been troubled with the matter but the Home Secretary may possibly mention it to you.\n\n8.1.6 20976 \nas you see 30.7.26 \nI saw Smith, Delevingne on Tuesday in another matter and passed ... stood.\n\nS. held to his decision. He took exception to the master having been submitted to the S.J.S. for final decision without giving H.D. further chance to press his case.\n\nI pointed out that his letter of 23/7 was no indication that any sinister view had been taken by H.D. or that it was not in accordance with the Home Secretary's desire. He also realised that the Japanese representatives at Geneva did not appear to be anxious to take advantage of any opening.\n\nHe said that the Co. had already been asked to accept the League of Nations' undertaking to defend ... and that if they did not, he would have to resign his appointment as ... novice. The W.S. prefer the L/N indemnity.\n\nThe first opportunity I had, I discussed with Sir J. Wilson the despatch. In his absence, I suggested that a detailed summary of the open question might be prepared for consideration when Sir S. Wilson returns.\n\nSri R.D. was prepared to agree to this provided a paragraph were added to say that the distinctions drawn by the Co. in 1924 (which were later cancelled) are ...\n\n## Page 10\n| Date | To | Ref. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 9 Aug 1926 | Sir M. Delevingne | S.O. |\n| 9 Aug 1926 | Sir G. Severn | S.O. |\n| 19 Aug 1926 | Sir B. Severn | |\n| 20 Aug 1926 | Gov. HK. | long ay |\n| 21 Aug 1926 | J.B. | 1914188/26 |\n| 24 Aug 1926 | | |\n| 25 Aug 1926 | Sir C. Severn | F 14184/26 |\n| 25 Aug 1926 | J. Parkin | |\n\nI said that Sri R.D.'s despatch is placed before me and I prefer to ... and explain to him R.E. ... (20/7) ... 6. So I sent a telegram to HK. (as in draft) on 5/3.\n\n7. So you see, the Secretary ... 9 Aug 1926.\n\n8. To Sir M. Delevingne. S.O. 9 Aug 1926.\n\n9. To Sir G. Severn. S.O. 19 Aug 1926.\n\n10. To Sir B. Severn. 20 August 1926.\n\n11. Copy sent to Gov. As. long.\n\n12. Sir M. Delevingne. 20 August 1926.\n\n13. To Gov. HK. long ay, 20 August 1926.\n\nCastin. 21 Aug 1926 JB 1914188/26. 24 August 1926. 25 Aug 1926 146. F 14184/26.\n\nBader. To Sir C. Severn & Renie wo sie). Im idle ... to my ... ish ... \n\n2 7 AUG 1928.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## 15 Gov. lemp \n\nre \n\n27 Oct 1926 \n\nLes copies of mine I report by lups of Impt and Expts on AS \"Prominent\". \n\nI have had desp. placed Perrian financing of shipments of opium `(Original houg Co. F. 6675/26)` \n\nthe dupe. copy of this fill because sub- auch, it will be seen from p.2 some of the opin that sum Nem azee's mars that the HK. Nemasse to do with it had may have They necessarily thing hen the marks Vemale. Persian finns of Mer \n\nIt will be seen that Sir dr. Deleonique has not midiated in refined my to the change mainte f $78, 9 the not gove. is further deep. promised in No. 7 has This fresh mention Louis Sii M. Deleonique J Nemarle certani too \"desar\" \n\nI wo. accnduigh almost Y Hamit it me or be will to Fake mi 8.8.4. comm. suggest the Bull bull by the homs 7/12. \n\nI think we must assume that the H.K. Nemage is innocent, but of course it would be helpful to have this stated explicite. \n\nG.5.8.12.26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \n16. To Delevingne (H.O.) cons - w/c 15 and diff desfr. - \n11 Dec 1926 5/%\nTo Strang (F.O.) coms. wife 6, 7, 15, 16 and 17.\n\n## \n18 Serang (F.O.) dft desp \n11 sec 26.7/0 \n22 Dec 1926 \nNo objections to offer. Would like copy of desp in its final form\n\n## \n19. Delevingne (Facilities to be granted to nem con) \n24/12/26 \nSee now `30046/127 HK 13/1/22`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## S.O.383.\n\n24th December, 1926.\n\nAw16.\n\nDear Paskin,\n\nThank you for your letter of the 11th enclosing a copy of a despatch from Hong Kong on the subject of an opium syndicate in the Colony and draft of a despatch from the Governor on the subject of the facilities to be accorded to Nemazee.\n\nThe despatch and its enclosures from Hong Kong are very interesting and there is information in them which will be useful to the Opium Advisory Committee of the League. I propose therefore to ask the Foreign Office to communicate to the Secretariat of the League, for the information of the Advisory Committee, the substance of the information in the despatch and its enclosure, with the omission of the names and addresses as desired by the Governor. I understand from the last paragraph but one of your letter to me that the Colonial Office have no objection to this being done.\n\nAs regards Nemazee, I have discussed the matter again with Sir John Anderson. We cannot agree with the line taken in the draft despatch which you enclose and hold the view strongly that no facilities should be given to Nemazee or members of his family or firm which could in any way facilitate their trafficking in opium or drugs. We consider that the Colonial Office is looking at the matter in the wrong light. Nemazee makes a claim that he and his branch in Hong Kong have gone out of the opium business...\n\nJ.J. Paskin, Esq., M.C.\n\nCapy 5 W Strang (20) 8 JAN 1927 30046/27.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "-2-\n\naccepted unless there is evidence to the contrary.\n\nNemazee also claims that he is not responsible for transactions in opium carried out by the branch or associated firms in Shanghai, Singapore, Bombay, and elsewhere. This also must be accepted, unless there is evidence to the contrary.\n\nThe Colonial Office thinks that this claim has to be accepted. In view of all that you and we know about the activities of Nemazee and his family in connection with the business of smuggling opium into China and elsewhere, and of the fact that within the last two years he was busily engaged in Persia in connection with this business, we are quite at a loss to understand this attitude on the part of the Colonial Office. Our view is that the Government of Hong Kong should use their powers against Nemazee if they are not satisfied that he is not now concerned in the illicit transactions, and not (as you propose) only if they are in a position to prove that he is so concerned. In other words, the onus of proof should be on Nemazee and not on the Hong Kong Government. We gather from paragraph 5 of your despatch that the Colonial Office is influenced to some extent by the fact that Nemazee has been a prominent member of the English community in the Colony. This appears to us to be an argument for even greater circumspection on the part of the Colonial Government.\n\nHas the Colonial Office considered that it would be practically impossible for the Hong Kong Government ever to satisfy itself, when Nemazee says he wants to go to Shanghai, Macao, Amoy, or Swatow, or any other such place on business affairs, as to whether those affairs are or are not legitimate and do not cover opium transactions unless they should be so fortunate as to get proof through a raid or otherwise that Nemazee is mixed up in some opium transaction, and we understand from past despatches from the Government of Hong Kong that the Nemazee family there are too clever for that to be likely to happen.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506202, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "-3- \n\nI need not remind you, for you are well aware of it, that Nemazee's record is well known both in the League and outside of it, and the facts that he has been made a British subject and resides and carries on his business in a British Colony place us in an position of real embarrassment at Geneva. The Colonial Office are going to make that position very much worse if they deliberately decide to give Nemazee and the members of his family and firm, while they reside at Hong Kong, facilities to go about as they please and carry on any business they choose outside the Colony. You will surely appreciate that if, as a result of these facilities, Nemazee or his firm should engage in some illicit opium transaction and should be caught at it, we should have nothing whatever to say in Geneva or elsewhere in our defence. \n\nYours sincerely, \n**Malcoben Delerigne**\n\non \n18 Jan 1927 \n`30046/27`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "(F5489/5/87)\n\nMi Packer \n18616 515\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.** \n22nd December, 1926.\n\nDear Paskin,\n\nWe have no observations to offer on the draft despatch to Hongkong about Nemazee, enclosed in your letter No. `C/F/13188/26` of December 11th. We should like to have a copy of it in its final form so that we may send the correspondence to Tehran and Bushire.\n\nIt will of course not be necessary for you to send us officially another copy of the Governor's despatch of October 27th last.\n\nYours sincerely,\nW. Shang\n\nJ. J. Paskin, Esq., M.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Pussin 7/12\n\nMr. Ellis \nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery.\n\n### 3 DRAFT.s.\n\n`70./CF.13188/26 HK 17`\n\nDear Strung,\n\n113 Dec:26.\n\nI enclose copies of a secret letter I have written about H.K. Nemarie, which I think speaks for itself. We should know whether you wish to offer any comments to Secretary of State (5) from God. Conf 27/ Ift. Desp. to you. com.\n\nTo Your Cory. 9/1 (No6) \nTo Your Cory. (No...)\n\nThe crisis. I find that I have to apologise for not sending to you copies of two telegrams of the 95th sitting. In my view, there is sufficient indication of our draft. To facilitate reference, I send a copy of `HO.1:965/24`. \n\nThat is a copy of co. geo under reference `23965/249`, desp. of 31/4/14 and desp. of 19/17/24 were sent to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Your a copr b Sent to 6/x1/24 und in if. 49256/14. Stubbs desp. of 7/11/24 10/4/14 und in y. 42809/14 \n\nThe Sie. of the HK. Opin Orde real in saw opin jend to in 4 y me Fr. Desp. provides that \"Except under & in accordance with a hence granted by the you. us person firm shall, whether in his or beralf of my sell its behalf times perovs supply proume, or proane, or otherwise Creal in raw opin, whether offer to impper offen such je mi the Every or clsewhere, whether i be ascertansico a appropriatio existence not, \n\nYou I presum that Your Toph. wast will not mother cops of You's Desp. of 27th Och 1920 Beut 3 ion officially. \n\nin sicerely ve the Passin (55). J.Packe \n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nYour copy sent to 6/x1/24 and in if. `49256/14`. Stubbs despatch of 7/11/24 10/4/14 and in y. `42809/14`\n\nThe Secretary of the Hong Kong Opium Order real in saw opinion jend to in 4 years me French Despatch provides that \"Except under & in accordance with a licence granted by the Governor, no person firm shall, whether in his or on behalf of my sell its behalf times previously supply opium, or procure, or otherwise deal in raw opium, whether offer to import offen such je mi the Every or elsewhere, whether it be ascertainable a appropriation existence not,\n\nYou I presume that Your Top Honour wast will not mother copies of Your's Despatch of 27th Oct 1920 Beut 3 ion officially.\n\nin sincerely ve the Passin `(55)`. J.Packe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506206, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "C/F/13188/26\n\nDear Strang,\n\nDowning Street,\nDecember, 1926.\n\nTo Sir M. Delevingne\n\nI enclose copies of a letter I have written to Delevingne about our Hong Kong Nemazee case, which I think speaks for itself. We should be glad to know whether your Department has any observations to offer.\n\nRef. to Gov. 27.10.6\nTo Gov. 9.8.26\nTo Gov. Secret\n\nI find that we have to apologise for not sending to you before copies of our two despatches of the 9th of August. The circumstances in which they were written are sufficiently indicated in my enclosed draft.\n\nTo facilitate reference, I should say that a copy of Colonial Office despatch of 19th June, 1924, was sent to you on that date under reference `23965/24`, and a copy of Colonial Office despatch of 31st October, 1924, was sent to you on 6th November 1924 under reference `49286/24`. A copy of Stubbs' despatch of 7th August, 1924, was sent to you on 10th October, 1924, under reference `42809/24`.\n\nW. STRANG ESQ.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506207, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "The Section of the Hong Kong opium Ordinance referred to in paragraph 4 of my draft despatch provides that \n\n\"Except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Governor, no person or firm shall, whether in his or its own behalf or on behalf of any other person or firm, buy or sell, or supply or procure, or offer to supply or procure, or otherwise deal in or offer to deal in, any raw opium, whether such raw opium be in the Colony or elsewhere, and whether it be ascertained or appropriated or in existence or not.... \n\nI presume that your Department will not want another copy of the Governor's despatch of 27th October 1926, to be sent to you officially. \n\nYours sincerely.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Mr. Paskin 7/12.\n\nMr. Ellis \nMr. \n7/12 \nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery. \nConson. \n3 DRAFTS \nSir 12. Delevingne K.C.B. \nH.O. \n\nDear Sir Malcolm,\n\nI enclose a copy of a despatch from H.K. giving particulars of Lloyd's investigations into the activities of ... who opine suggling. You will see that this has been financed in ... From Gov. Conf. 27/4 (oft. herewith).\n\nIt is the first occasion possible to smuggle a cargo of Persian opium actually into the Colony. The mention of Nema Lee's Corp with excise (50.) has reminded ... to instruct (30) with D.L. about the dice disqualification to watch 2 not yet heard from you further about facilities for the travelling ... during the summer; HK. New alth & that consequently desp. forced promises the further desp.\n\nC. D. \nR 8 DEC \nF.O./C.F. 13188/26 1K \nMr Pasuri's sig. \n11 Dec:26. \nhid \nSo for \nD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "in the 5th of Sept. Tungst, sunet Desp. of the young \" has not get bus sent. Subject to comments wine. Lus ham may is offer, it is proposet to write to the you. Br. herewith. L Zaun micely 1 (51). J. Passin You wil how for it wt. win the words. The useful 5 the 4/10 soorites, 65 Raqə yorit in the Gov. j stounding impr Wins Petter(1) is stinny 0 in case this imt ་ Br. Desp. Grous 3 Iferion the (No 7:)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506210, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "C/F/13188/26\n\nDear Sir Malcolm,\n\nDowning Street,\nDecember, 1926.\n\n**Fr.Gov.Conf.**\n27.10.26\nTo Gov.\n\nI enclose a copy of a despatch from Hong Kong giving particulars of Lloyd's investigations into the activities of an opium smuggling syndicate. You will see that this is the first occasion on which it has been possible to prove that a cargo of Persian opium was actually arranged and financed in the Colony.\n\nThe mention of Newazee's name on page 2 of the sub-enclosure has reminded us that we have not yet heard from you further about the question of travelling facilities for the long Kong Nemazee, which we discussed during the summer; and that consequently the further despatch promised in the Secretary of State's secret despatch of the 9th of August, has not yet been sent.\n\nSubject to any comments which you may have to offer, it is now proposed to write to the Governor as in draft herewith.\n\nYou will no doubt consider how far it would\n\n**SIR M. DELEVINGNE K.C.B.** \nbe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "be useful to communicate the substance of Lloyd's report \nto the League of Nations with the names and addresses omitted, \nas desired by the Governor.\n\nI am sending a copy of this letter (and enclosures) \nto the Foreign Office, in case they have any \nobservations to offer on the draft despatch.\n\nYours sincerely.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\n**HONG KONG SECRET**\n\n(to go in dft. to Sir M. Delegingne and Mr. Strang with dhw.)\n\n(fair copy for file also required)\n\n(7)\n\nI have the honour to refer to my secret despatch of the 9th of August in which I indicated my intention to address you further in regard to the question of withholding travelling facilities from Haji Muhammad Hassan Nemazee.\n\n2.\n\nI have to explain that it was represented to me at that time that the fact that Nemazee is a British Subject and that the branches of the firm in Persia, Macao, Shanghai and Bombay were engaged in carrying on an illicit trade in opium had already become embarrassing to the British Representatives at Geneva, and that there did not appear to be any grounds for withdrawing the instructions which were conveyed to your predecessor in Mr. Thomas' secret despatches of the 19th of June.\n\nE.E. \nX \nM Påskin 7/12 \nMr. Ellis 7/12 \nMr. \nMr E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. F.S. \nSi J. Davis. \n`F.0./C.F.13188/26 H.K.` \nSir, \nDowning Street, \nDecember, 1926. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery. Conson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "between the 1st of June and the 31st of October 1924, and which had only been in suspense owing to Nemazee's absence from the Colony.\n\n3. On the other hand, no evidence had been produced to me to indicate that the statements made to His Majesty's Representatives in Persia that the Hong Kong member of the family had gone out of the opium business, were incorrect, or that he is in any way responsible for the transactions in opium which were alleged to be carried on by other members of the family.\n\n4. I was also influenced by the consideration that if it could be proved at any time that he were re-engaging in the illicit traffic in opium, it would be possible to proceed against him under Section 4 of the Opium Ordinance, a section which (it will be recalled) was enacted in 1924 with specific reference to `(H.0.23965/24)` `(H.0.49286/24)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Gov.42809/24\n\n(No 15)\n\nyour predecessor's observations on the\ndifficulty of taking action against\nNemazee under the Opium Ordinance as\nit then stood.\n\n5.\n\nIn these circumstances I\nfelt that there were insufficient\ngrounds for renewing the instructions\nthat such a prominent member of the\nunofficial community in the Colony\n(vide Sir R.E.Stubbs' secret despatch of\nthe 7th of August, 1924) should be\ndenied facilities for travelling on his\nlegitimate business.\n\n6.\n\nI observe, however, from page\n2 of the Report forwarded with your\n**confidential** despatch of the 27th of\nOctober that some of the chests of\nPersian opium carried by the s.s.\n\"Philadelphia\" \"had Nemazee's marks\"\nI presume you are satisfied that this\ndoes not mean that the Hong Kong member of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "of the family is still (or has again become) interested in the illicit traffic in opium. I should, however, be glad to be informed explicitly whether the fuller information, which is no doubt in your possession, indicates that he is not implicated in these transactions and that there is therefore no occasion to consider the question of taking action against him under the Opium Ordinance.\n\n7. I should also be glad to be furnished with your observations generally on the question of the desirability or otherwise of withholding travelling facilities from Nemazee, and members of his family or firm.\n\nI have etc...\n\nSee addition Suggested in minute `7 21/3/27 30046/27`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506216, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Mr. Passain 7/12 \n\nMr. Ellis \nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery. \n\n3 DRAFTS. \n\n(7) \n\n7.0. / Cf. 13188/26 IK. \n\nI have the etc. to refer to my Secret desp. of the 15th of Aug. wh. I indicated my intention to address further in regard to the Govt of H.K. witholding travelling facilities from Haji Muhammed Hassan Nemaree.\n\n[To go in qt to Sii 12. Delomigue on Shang with Joh.). resunies for file [fari copt for also].\n\n2. I have to explain that it was represented to me at that time that Nemazee is a British subject & that the branches of the firm in Persia, Macao, Shanghai & Bombay had already become embarassing to the British Representatives at Geneva, & that there did not appear any grounds for withdrawing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \nThe distinctive Zain predecessor in Thomas' senet commenced on the 15th of June and the 31st of the same month (`23905/24/`) (`49286/2+`). \n\nOwing to Nemaree's absence, the business was in suspense. On the other hand, the Colony was...\n\n## \n3. Owing to no evidence of him being involved, it was deemed necessary to maintain that statements made by H.M. Representatives to Perrin on the 1st of May 1924 regarding the refining regulations for controlling trafficking were incorrect. The Hik/Opin of the family had been that the opium business was...\n\n## \nThe allegations were that he was in some way responsible for the opening of other camphor carburets of the family. \n\n4. It was also proved that he was not influenced by the consignment at any time in June that he was re-engaging in illicit traffic. He was of the opinion that...\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "be possible to proceed against \n\nunder \n\nSee \n\n4 \na section \nenacted in 1924 \npredecessors \ndifficulty \nwh. \n\nJuin \nfo \nof the Open Office \"It will be recalled) \n\" with specific reference \nobsons. \nbornbility of taking \nto \nthe same effectiveness \naction \nagainst \nNemarie \nunder \nthe \nOpium \nOrdinance. \n\nas it then stood. \n\n5. \nIn these \ncircs. \nI felt \nthat \nthere \nwere \ngrounds \nfor \nrenewing \nthe \ninstructions \nthat \nSuch \nprominent \nmember \nof the \nunofficial \n... \nGov. 42809/24. \n\n# Community \nin the Col. (vide despatch \nSecretary \n1924) \nSir R. E. Stubbs & desp of the 7th of May, 1350) \nshould \nbe \ndenied \nfacilities for travelling \n? is legitimate business. \n\n6. \nI \nnow \nsend \nwith \ndespatch \nfrom p2. J \n... \nobserve \nthe Report \nComp. desp. of \n... \nSome \n& \nthe \nclaims \nthat \nPersian opium \n\"Lad Nemarie's marks\",\" \nHowever \nforwarded \nin \nOct. \nthis 27th Jo \nchests \n... \n\"be the J.S.\" Philadelphia \nThe wife", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506219, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "I presume you are validly finding that this \ndoes not merge \nnode approve \nthat the nth member \nbecome ) interested \nof \nthe family \nagainst \nillicit Traffic \nto \n... \nis still \n(or his \nthe \nopinion. \nI should \nhowever \nbe \nExplicitly \nthe \nJoulet \n... \nbe informed of whether \nfuller information \nwhich is \n... \nCom \nThat Hom \nthe \nagainst ... \nOrder. Les im \n7. \nevident that \nif so \nI am taking action the opinion \nunder \n... \nI think also \nfurnished with \nThe desirability \n... \nor otherwise of \n... \ngenerally \nhe is not \nimplicated \nin these \ntransactions \nthat the \nis therefore \ndeemed 15 \nto \nthe \nthe \nobjections [ \n... \nconsider \n(withholding travelling facilities \nto and \nfrom \nNemare \nfamily \nfirm. \n> \nmembers \n... \nLing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nCopies to:-\nCanton No.268.\nSwatow.\nBushire.\n\nSir,\n\n**22165** \n30 NOV 1926 \nNOV-4926\n\nGovernment House, \nHong Kong. \n27th October, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information copies of a minute and report by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports concerning the seizure of certain documents relating to the financing of shipments of Persian opium on the S.S. *\"Philadelphia\"*. Two recent voyages of this ship are referred to in the confidential despatches dated 3rd December, 1925 and 7th September, 1926, from the British Resident, Bushire, to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\n2\\. There is no objection on the part of this Government to the substance of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports' report being communicated to the League of Nations, but I would request that the names and addresses mentioned should not be given.\n\n3\\. Copies of this despatch and its enclosures are being sent to the Resident Bushire, and to the Consul-General at Canton and the Consul at Swatow.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient humble servant, \n(Sd.) C. CLEMENTI, \nLieut.-Colonel I.C.M.G., M.I.E., \nGovernor, &c. \n&c. \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Honourable Colonial Secretary,\n\nRe Persian Opium.\n\nI forward a report on the examination of documents and enquiries made concerning the firms Wong Iling Loong and Yue Hling Steam Ship Co. of 108 Des Voeux Road Central, the owners of the well-known ship S.S. Philadelphia, which has completed two voyages with Persian opium from Bushire.\n\nThe interest lies in the fact that for the first time I have been able to prove that a cargo of Persian opium was actually arranged and financed in the Colony.\n\n3.\n\nUnfortunately, I was only able to arrest an employee of the firm, though I was convinced myself that he was a responsible man in the firm. I was unable to prove it to the satisfaction of the magistrate, and he was accordingly discharged. The principals all absconded, and I have been unable to trace them. At least ten of them actually had lived in Hong Kong and must be well-known to many of the Chinese mercantile community. But, as usual, I have been unable to obtain any particulars of them. Many of them had places of residence, in addition, outside the Colony, and went backwards and forwards. In fact, it was this point which would have rendered it very difficult to bring home a charge of dealing in opium to any one of them, it being very difficult to convince the magistrate that any action in reference to the opium had been actually performed in the Colony by any particular person mentioned.\n\n4. I have, however, reason to believe that the action taken thoroughly scared a good many of the higher class of Chinese merchants who were quite partial to taking a share in an opium gamble.\n\n**J.D. Lloyd**\nSuperintendent of Imports and Exports.\n\n22nd October, 1926.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Report on the examination of documents seized at 108 Des Voeux Road Central.\n\n528\n\nAs a result of information, a search was carried out on the 1st floors of 108 Des Voeux Road Central, 49 Bonham Strand East, and 71 Wing Lok Street on August 27th. A large number of papers were seized, and one man arrested at 108; the other floors were untenanted at the time.\n\nThe firm occupying 108 was called Kwong Hing Loong; it purported to deal in exchange, but no evidence of this was discovered. It had been started about the middle of 1925, apparently for no other purpose than to deal in opium, both Chinese and Persian. The partners were 21 in number: 6 belonging to Canton, 10 belonged to Hong Kong or were frequently resident here, 1 to Haiphong and Yunnanfu, though at one time resident here; the remainder belonged to Kongmoon.\n\nA branch or allied firm was maintained at 12 Rua do Mastro, Macau. This firm apparently attended to the disposal of opium in the hinterland and exchanged cables with Bushire direct in order to avoid Hong Kong.\n\nThe Kwong Hing Loong was found to be the managing agents for the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co., a partnership of 4 persons, of whom 3 were also partners in the other firm. The other partner, Ho Lui Hap, was a native of Shanghai and apparently had had some connection with the S.S. Cochin Chine before.\n\nIn September 1925, the S.S. Cochin Chine was sold by order of the Court here for $45,000; the purchaser at once resold her to the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co. for $66,000. The names mentioned in the document of sale were different from those found in the books of the Company. She was renamed Philadelphia, or in Chinese \"Tsun On\". The ship was at once placed in the hands of a shipyard for refit and left this port for Keelung on 7th October 1925. At Keelung, she took in a large amount of coal and left for the Persian Gulf. She left Bushire with Persian opium on 27th...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "before 27th November, 1925, and was again at Keelung sometime between 14th January, 1926, she arrived here on 3rd February, and was employed between this port and Haiphong till 27th May when she left for Hongay, from thence she sailed to Formosa to take in a large supply of coal, and she was next heard of on July 4th when S.S. Fushimi Maru heard her calling up Sabang by wireless, and using as a call signal, the letters allotted to a station in Formosa. Finally on August 10th she left Bushire with opium, arriving at Sabang for docking, and leaving thence on September 1st. After this date all trace is lost of her; from intercepted letters she went to near Shanghai, and was expected at Haiphong. It was rumoured that she had been seen in a Bay near Swatow, about the middle of September, but this is uncertain.\n\nOf the first consignment of Persian opium it appears from the papers seized that the Awong Hing Loong were responsible for 261 chests; the other chests certainly had Nemazee's marks, and may account for the ship's visit to Macau before coming back here. Of the second consignment it appears from a cable in secret code which I was able to decipher, that 481 chests of Persian opium belonged to the syndicate managed by the Kwong Hing Loong, and the remainder, 156 chests, belonged to a man called Wai and others; it is probable that this was the portion which was to be delivered in the neighbourhood of Shanghai. Reference to the report from the H.B.M. Resident at Bushire it will be seen that this amount is somewhat larger than that reported by him; to the Dutch authorities at Bushire the captain showed a manifest giving 560 chests only. The reason for the difference is not apparent in any of the papers.\n\nOn \n\nThe Kwong Hing Loong as soon as it was decided to form a syndicate to send the ship to Bushire for opium, began to solicit subscribers; the firm itself and the firm in Macau took up a certain number of chests, their partners took up a certain number, and the employees of the firm were allowed to come in at a favourable", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## favourble rate, and take up as little as a half chest. The \namounts agreed on were paid gradually by instalments, in fact \nsome were paid after the ship had arrived back with her cargo. \nA deposit was paid of apparently about ten per cent on the opium \nordered from Behbehani, the remainder was remitted through the \nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank direct to Bombay for the credit of \nBehbehani about two days before the ship sailed from Bushire.\n\nWhere the opium was disposed of is not clear from the documents. 55 chests were stored at one time somewhere in this Colony. \nThe opium was mostly sold in odd lots in packages each containing \n48 taels, occasionally a whole chest is sold at once. The opium \ncost from $1,900 to $2,400 a chest, and was sold for various \namounts up to about $4,500 in notes. The amounts realised were \npaid over to the subscribers less any portion of the subscription \nnot already paid up. In many cases the subscribers never saw or \ndealt with the opium in any way; when the goods were sold they \nreceived a certain sum. In many cases no actual allotment of any \nparticular chests were made, and it is not clear how it was \ndecided how much the chest subscribed for by a particular person was sold for. It appears probable that when subscribers were in \narrears with their subscriptions, the money required for immediate remittance was obtained from a Chinese Bank by the name \nof Sheng Fook, who owned a share in the Kwong Iling Loong firm. This \nbank also acted as the repository for the money paid in, and in \nmany cases actually collected the amounts from Canton and Kong-\nmoon.\n\nMany of the names of the partners were already familiar; they were connected with the Nam Lei Loong firm, which was searched in connection with the Wing Tai firm in 1923. In fact, one of the partners had started a new firm under a different name \nin the same premises as were occupied in 1923 by the Wing Tai.\n\nThe name of the chief defendant, Lo Yue Heung, in the case reported on in connection with 20 Lei Yuen Street East in July \nlast", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "4\n\nLast, appeared in the firm's books as having received large sums this year.\n\nAnother partner's name had been for a long time well known as connected with the trade in Chinese Raw opium from Tong Hing.\n\nAs soon as the ship was about to leave on her next opium trip, all the officers and members of the crew drew their wages up to the end of the current month, and also received an advance of two months' wages. The trip was calculated to last for three months, and during this time the crew were paid double wages, and also received a handsome bonus which was paid in instalments. The Captain, Alfred Enanteau, received as much as $3,275 as a bonus for the November trip. A supercargo by the name Yue Hong travelled on the ship; he was a partner in the Wong Hing Loong; he had management of all the business connected with the opium cargo, exchanged cables with the headquarters here, and the ship could be traced by any mention of him as being at a certain place. On each trip, provision was made for going to Sabang, Keelung, and Shanghai, by the purchase of a considerable amount of the currency of these places; a considerable amount in sovereigns was also carried. On the first trip, Sabang was missed, and a record is found of the repurchase of the Dutch currency provided originally.\n\nIn the case of the second trip, the trouble was taken to go to a regular European ship broker to fix a charter for 3 months, a charter really to themselves; the man who signed the charter party was not a partner, or even a manager. The charter party was for only $5,500 per month, and prohibited the ship going west of Bombay. The chop which had been used to affix to the charter party was found with the chops of the Kwong Hing Loong firm; it had obviously been only used once or twice. The name of the charter was given as the Hop ...oh firm of Amoy, and the ship was stated to be for delivery at that port. So far as the papers found show, the only person connected with Amoy was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \n- 5 \n\nwas the compradore of the ship Ham Iu Wing. It is probable \nthat the idea of the charterparty was to conceal the real \ndestination of the ship.\n\nIn one of the cables from the supercargo at Bushire decoded, \nmention is made that the ship would have a red funnel and would \nfly a white flag as a mark of distinction. Instructions were \ngiven for the ship to be met by another ship at a place called \nLong Fong Kai; the exact situation of this place cannot be \ndetermined, but it is believed to signify some creek west of Macau, or possibly between Haiphong and Fakhoi. Information \nreceived was to the effect that part of the opium was to be put \noff into junks southwest of Gap Lock, near some islands. One \ncable suggested that she was to call at Saigon for orders; she did not, however, do so. A more recent letter intercepted seems \nto imply that she is due now in Haiphong. Letters seized make it quite plain that she was due to arrive in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, and local rumour had it that she had discharged her opium near that place about the middle of September. In all the documents, absolutely no mention is made of any \nintention of going to Vladivostock, for which she cleared from \nBushire in both instances.\n\nIn the first venture, some $450,000 was raised, and for the \nsecond, some $650,000. It is to be remarked that this money was \nraised at the time of the beginning of the strike in July 1925, \nand while the boycott was in progress in June and July this year \nin respect of the second venture. Though trade was very bad, \napparently the members of the syndicate had no doubt that an opium deal would be highly successful in spite of all the \ntrouble. The fact that the opium was financed from Hong Kong \napparently was not allowed to interfere with its disposal in spite of the boycott.\n\nsd. J.D. Lloyd. \nSuperintendent of Imports and Exports. \n22nd October, 1926.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506227, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Exhibit \"A\" \n\nParaphrase. \n\nSheng Fook 49, Boilam Strand East, Hong Kong. \n\nto \n\nYu Hong C/O Superior Bushire. \n\nDated 21/7/26. \n\nYour two cables from Saigon and Wabang received and \nunderstood. There is no doubt that Yu Kai is acting the \ntraitor. I am already taking precautions and making \ninvestigations about them (or him). Hr. Jai will attend \nto his own goods, but please do your best to assist him \nin every possible way in landing the goods. It is absolutely \nnecessary to inspect the goods very carefully in order to \navoid any mistake. These are special instructions. \n\n(signed) \"Ngah\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506228, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Exhibit E. 7\n\n**Paraphrase**\n\nfrom Bushire to Long Hing Lon, Macau dated 8th August, 1926.\n\nI have received and understood your 2 cables. Have received safely 930,000 (rupees). The total of the goods is all packages of superior grade goods, together with 166 packages belonging to Sei and others in addition. I shall sail on the 3rd (August 10th) and arrive at Sabang about 18/19th (25/26 August). I have already kept back sufficient funds to pay for docking and painting the ship's bottom. This will increase the speed 14 miles per hour. I shall wait for your cabled reply before starting. When I arrive at Saigon, I will again report the date fixed for our return. If there is any urgent contingency, hire a steamer and meet me at Long Jong Lai. Look out for a red funnel, and a white flag hoisted as a mutual answering signal.\n\nBut if you have found out the truth about Yu Kai, why not kill him?\n\nAs there is no secrecy in everything, I will certainly take every precaution to watch all the fake[s] of the ship and gang. Do not worry.\n\n**Note**. Chung is the wireless operator.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## CR. 13188/20\n### DRAFT\n\nDear Sir,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of 20th August.\n\nThe position as to travelling is very unsatisfactory. I much regret it. There is some compensation, however, in that Nemari returned to its duties.\n\nThe Persian passport position has been sent to the Foreign Office, if you will refer to it.\n\nFilling no high official position, his vigilance had been engaged in trafficking in hashish. Nemari has met the suspect (No. 243) and a separate despatch is still being prepared.\n\nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery.\n\nPage 10 \n`CR. 13188/20` \n14 C. D. \nR 26 AUG \nfor my sig. \n1026 \nUng: 26. \nIn cland \nSeven K.B.E., C.M.G. \n19144 \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, however, `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either, a file reference `CR. 13188/20` is present.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "The wording of timmeting facilities revised to five questions provided the opportunity to discuss the facilities that will be available for experiencing leave. I had guided his return from ... \n\nI will send form during ... will ... on A Sept. matching probably ... it as ... to ... is very kind of you about it. I will ... Zaur offer notice ...\n\n(Signed) J. J. PASKIN, \nSupt. \n150 & shall leave during ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "August, 1926.\n\nNo. 0.7.13188/1926.\n\nHK.\n\nDear Sir Claud,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 20th of August about Nemazi. The position as to travelling is very much as I imagined it to be. There is one complication however, in that Nemazi returned to Hong Kong on a Persian passport.\n\nThe position now is that a despatch was sent to the Governor on the 9th of August telling him not to relax his vigilance in case Nemazi should re-commence his trafficking in illicit opium. (The Home Office suspect him of still being so engaged). In a separate despatch the Governor was told that the 1924 instructions as to the withholding of travelling facilities are under consideration. This was to give Sir Malcolm an opportunity (for which he pressed) of re-opening this question on Grindle's return from leave. I have now heard from Sir Malcolm that he will be away during the whole of September and that this question will accordingly probably stand over till October.\n\nSIR CLAUD SEVERN, K.B.E., C.M.G.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "It is very kind of you to offer to see Sir Malcolm about it. I will bring your offer to Grindle's notice on his return.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(Signed) J. J. PASKIN,\n\nP.S. I too shall be on leave during September.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "No.7.13188/1926.\n\nHB\n\nDear Sir Claud,\n\n2 August 1926.\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 20th of August about Temazi. The position as to travelling is very much as I imagined it to be. There is one complication however, in that Temazi returned to Hong Kong on a Persian passport.\n\nThe position now is that a despatch was sent to the Governor on the 9th of August telling him not to relax his vigilance in case Temazi should re-commence his trafficking in illicit opium. (The Home Office suspect him of still being so engaged). In a separate despatch the Governor was told that the 1924 instructions as to the withholding of travelling facilities are under consideration. This was to give Sir Malcolm an opportunity (for which he pressed) of re-opening this question on Grindle's return from leave. I have now heard from Sir Malcolm that he will be away during the whole of September and that this question will accordingly probably stand over till October.\n\nSIR CLAUD SEVERN, K.B.E., C.M.G.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "It is very kind of you to offer to see Sir Malcolm about it. I will bring your offer to Grindle's notice on his return.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(Signed) J. J. Paskin,\nP.S. I too shall be on leave during September.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "S.0.197.\n\n24th August, 1926.\n\n12\n\nDear Paskin,\n\nThank you for your letter of the 9th in regard to the matter of the question of restricting Nemazi's movements. It will probably now have to stand over till October, as Sir John Anderson, with whose authority my letter to you was written, is away at present, and I shall be away myself during September. I take it this will be agreeable to the Colonial Office.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJ.J. Paskin, Esq., C.\n\nMalcolm Delevingne", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## 9, EARLS COURT SQUARE, \n## LONDON, S.W. 5. \n### 20 August 1921 \n\nDear Parkin, \n\nIn reply to your letter of the 19 August, speculation is that while it would be possible under the law (Tramway & Tramroller, Restriction Ordinance I think) to prevent Némazi leaving the Colony leaving for a definite destination, without such special action he could go with the passport he probably promises. There was last year no examination of passengers or passengers leaving the Colony, whether practice may have altered since I left. I would, however, with all respect, feel that it is either like flogging a dead horse to take any further action of the kind indicated with regard to old Némazi, unless things have been happening during the last night...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "months which I am not aware.\n\n sion \n\nMy impression \n\nwas that he had gone out of the opium business. \n\nAlso I am inclined to think that if travelling facilities were refused to such a high-respected personage the Mahommedan Community might be offended. The dropping of his name from the list was done quietly but if any new clause were seen the question of his re-instatement might be raised.\n\nI shall be glad if required to see Sir Malcolm and discuss the matter.\n\nYours sincerely,\nClaud Severn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# 13188/26 \n\n9 \n\nDowning Street. \n\n9th August, 1926. \n\nDear Sir Claud, \n\nI told you the other day that Sir H. Delevingne is pressing us to renew the instructions given to the Governor in 1924 that no travelling facilities whatever should be given to Nemazi (who has now returned to Hong Kong) to proceed to any place (e.g., Kacas or Shanghai) where he might carry on his illicit trade in opium.\n\nI am not at all certain what facilities are required by a British subject to enable him to proceed from Hong Kong to these places. Perhaps it is that a passport is demanded on arrival there? I should be very much obliged if you could enlighten me on this point.\n\nYours sincerely, \n\n**SIR CLAUD SEVERN, K.B.E., C.M.G.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Mr. Paskin 4/5,\n\nMr.\nMr.\nMr. E. J. Harding.\nMr. Strachey.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nSir G. Grindle.\nSir C. Davis.\n★ Sir S. Wilson.\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\nEarl of Clarendon.\nMr. Amery,\n\n70.\nc.13155/20.\n\nSo for my sig.\n\nDear Sir Malcolm,\n\nI have spoken to Sir Samuel about Numazi 3 DRAFTS. He retains the opinion he formed when the matter was submitted to him. He is still unable to agree with you, but he is willing to discuss it further.\n\nThe Governor has been told in separate Dispatch that instructions were issued by his predecessor in 1924. This will leave the door open for the matter to be taken up again on his return.\n\nTo HK. 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G the you. bing to with old oravelling", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "facilities.\n\nchanged.\n\nAics.\n\nHe \n\nclans \n\nhave however \n\ngone \n\nout \n\nof the \n\nbusiness \n\nhave \n\nLave \n\nin \n\nH.K.. \n\nintentional \n\ntransactions \n\nlaws, & \n\nHere \n\nis \n\nfor \n\nintended \n\nengaging \n\ncontain \n\nKid \n\nCam \n\nthat \n\nthis is \n\nit seemed \n\nthat the \n\nlaw is \n\nfar from \n\nMoreover \n\nnot \n\nKid \n\nLe \n\ncase. \n\nH.K. \n\nStart dealing \n\nin \n\nnot to the \n\nonly \n\nso stringent \n\nopen again \n\nthere \n\nmin \n\nThat \n\nengaging \n\ngreat affinity \n\nto book. \n\nas not appear \n\nto manage \n\nVarious cruce no me independent, & \n\nnot \"branches\" of \n\nfirm \n\nCause each concern no doth hom \n\nJ \n\n(wh. I mentioned \n\nfurther \n\nthat \n\nH.A. \n\n& Mis \n\nresponsibility for the \n\nHinder \n\nThere \n\nevidence \n\nhas \n\nwe have and \n\nNumerous \n\ntransactions are conducted by \n\nbusiness \n\n& the family; \n\nmembers of the \n\nThere are \n\n(2.9. \n\nbut that, \n\non the other hand, \n\ntel. from Singapore) that \n\nwiss. In these cases, it \n\ns. gr. (who agrees) \n\nsufficient grounds \n\nto prevent \n\nSo bruited \n\nthat \n\nbranches \n\nThere \n\nnot \n\ninstructions \n\nThe Gov. of H.K. \n\nfrom \n\nmerchant, \n\nNemazi \n\nbusiness \n\nbeing \n\nlegitimate \n\nship-owner \n\nroutinely.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "I enclose copies of the \n\nYour enquiry regarding whether Nemazi's acquired Pr. nationality has been answered (i.e., for HK, can do so) by \n\nThe 23rd Ritter (70. 14608/26) Jeseter reply to Bustine (anchored within their reply 30. No F. 2882/5/87 f) of July) shiri inqing from the disp.\n\nYours sincerely \n**(Signed) J. J. PASKIN**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506243, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Dear Sir Malcolm,\n\nDowning Street,\nAugust, 1926.\n\nI have spoken to Sir Samuel Wilson about Nemazi and put your views before him. He retains the opinion which he formed when the question was submitted to him, that the despatch in the form in which it has now been approved by our Secretary of State (i.e. without your pencil addition) is as far as we ought to go in present circumstances. He is sorry not to be able to agree with you but he has agreed to the Governor being told in a separate despatch that the instructions which were issued to his predecessor in 1924 are under consideration.\n\nThis will leave the door open, as you wish, for the matter to be taken up again on Grindle's return.\n\nThe Colonial Office view is based on the following considerations:\n\nWhen the 1924 instructions were issued, Nemazi was admittedly shipping Persian opium to the\n\nSIR M. DELEVINGNE, K.C.B.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506244, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "Far from though, as you are aware, there was (in the opinion of the legal advisers of the Hong Kong Government and the Colonial Office) nothing on which he could be prosecuted under the Hong Kong Ordinance as it stood; in fact, he seems always to have been careful to avoid any infraction of the Hong Kong laws. But he had gone to Persia where, it was to be presumed, he would continue to deal in opium.\n\nAt the same time, the Governor was instructed to amend the Ordinance to make \"procuring\" illegal except under licence. With this loophole stopped, Nemezi would either have to go out of the opium business (at any rate so far as Hong Kong was concerned) or else (if he continued his operations and if he were in Hong Kong or if his firm in Hong Kong had any hand in the business) to break the new Hong Kong law.\n\nWe presumed that he would so continue, and in those circumstances, the Colonial Office did not object", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "object to the Governor being instructed to withhold travelling facilities.\n\nCircumstances 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.\n\nThere was the further consideration (which I mentioned to you) that we do not appear to have any evidence that the Hong Kong Nemuzis 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, though of course each concern no doubt has branches of its own.\n\nIn these circumstances it was submitted to our", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Conf: \n\n**Secret**\n\nOur Secretary of State (who agreed) that there are not sufficient grounds to instruct the Governor of Hong Kong to prevent Nemuzi from travelling on his legitimate business as merchant, ship-owner etc.\n\nI enclose copies of the two despatches.\n\nYour enquiry whether Nemuzi's soul has acquired British nationality has now been answered (so far as Hong Kong can do so) by their reply to Bushire (enclosed with Foreign Office letter No. `F.2882/5/87` of the 23rd of July). We have therefore deleted this enquiry from the despatch.\n\nYours sincerely, \n(Signed) **J. J. PASKIN**.\n\nTo", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Confidential\n### Draft\n\nTo Sir C. Davis.\n\nIt is suggested that the following officials be informed:\n\n* Mr. Paskin 5/8 p.\n* Mr. E. J. Harding.\n* Mr. Strachey.\n* Sir J. Shuckburgh.\n* Sir G. Grindle.\n* Sir S. Wilson.\n* Mr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\n9 AUG 1920\n\nThe Earl of Clarendon and Mr. Amery were also involved.\n\n### Confidential Despatch\n\nDate: 5 AUG 1920\n\nRegarding the return to H.M. of Itaji Hass Muhammad, I have conveyed instructions in the form (140.23968/24) and (140.49256/24) of 19 June 1924, that facilities were to be given to Nemazi Jun and his family to proceed to Numazie.\n\nThe instructions conveyed to (140.23968/24) and (140.49256/24) were that he was to be allowed to place himself where he was likely to be engaged in carrying on the traffic.\n\n### Reference\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` was referenced in the despatch of 31st July 1924.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "in opening Consideration of present proposals coming under discussion here in matter of H... this (S) L. S. AMERY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## C. 13188/26 Hong Kong\nDowning Street, \nAugust, 1930.\n\nWith reference to my confidential despatch of today's date in regard to the return to Hong Kong of Mr. H. Duboamed (or Dubois), I have the honour to inform you that the instructions which were conveyed to your predecessor in Mr. Thomas' secret despatch of the 19th of June and 31st of October, 1924, that no facilities should be given to his family or firm, to proceed to any place where he would be likely to be engaged in carrying on the traffic in opium, are still under consideration. I propose to address further despatch to you in this matter in due course.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Sd.) L. S. AMERY.\n\n**[End of Despatch]**\n\n## COVER FOR C.\n312 C. CLEMENTI, C.M.G..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506250, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# 49\n\n**HONG KONG.**\n\n**SID.Conf.**\n\n**Gov.**\n\n3 draft o...\n\n$185 for authority see minutes)\n\n9 Aug 1920\n\nto 6 Downing Street,\n\n9 July, 1926.\n\nEnc. & sub-end. in `9298`.\nEncl. & sub-end. in `13188`.\n\n67.91.\n\nThere are the duplicates No. 184 of 8 April and No. 252...\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the despatch No.118-S dated the 27th of March from His Majesty's Consul General, Bushire, reporting the departure of Haji Muhammad Hassan Nemazi from Persia for Hong Kong, I have etc. to transmit to you the accompanying copies of further despatches from His Majesty's Minister at Tehran covering a Memorandum in regard to Nemazi's activities during the past year, and the Notes of a conversation between His Majesty's Consul, Shiraz, and Nemazi's second son.\n\nIt...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "These documents throw some further light on the illicit traffic in opium carried on by the Nemazi family, in organized connection with Aqa Ali Nemazi Indian opium smugglers in China originally, e.g., the traffic from Hong Kong; opium carried on by the Nemazi firm under the Vousher flag at a time when the British Govt (of which they were subjects) had undertaken to stop the export of Indian opium to China. It would appear from the documents that the amendment of the H.K. Opium Ordinance in 1924, and the promulgation of the King's Regulations for the control of the carriage of opium from the Persian Gulf in British Ships have, to a considerable extent achieved their object in restricting the opportunities of this firm to carry on their traffic in opium under the British flag.\n\nNevertheless, in spite of the statement that the business in opium, so far as the Nemazi family is concerned, is now confined to the firm of Aqa Ali Nemazi in Bombay and to certain relatives in Persia, it seems clear that no branch of the family would be averse to re-engaging in the traffic should opportunity offer, if indeed they are not still so engaged clandestinely.\n\nI should be glad to know whether the statement of Nemazi's second son, as reported in Bushire desp. No.118-5, that he had not acquired British nationality, but had remained a Persian subject, is correct. I trust, therefore, that your Government will not relax its vigilance in this matter.\n\nDelete (`vide` 14608)\n\nI have, etc.\n**(S.) L. S. AMERY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "### H3H, CONG \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n\nSir, \n\n70 \nC. 13188/26 Hong Kong \nDowning Street, \n9 August, 1926. \n\nWith reference to the despatch `20.118/8` dated the 7th of March from His Majesty's Consul General, Shiraz, reporting the departure of Haji Muhammad Hassan Binasi from Persia for Hong Kong, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copies of further despatches from His Majesty's Minister at Tehran covering a Memorandum in regard to Nemazi's activities during the past year, and the Notes of a conversation between His Majesty's Consul, Shiraz, and Hemsi's son. These documents throw some further light on the illicit traffic in opium carried on by the Hemsi family, e.g., the traffic in Indian opium with China - organized by the elder Nemazi from Hongkong.\n\nAt a time when the British Government (of which he was a subject) had undertaken to stop the export of Indian opium to China.\n\n2. It would appear from the documents that the amendment of the Hong Kong Opium Ordinance in 1924, and the promulgation of the King's Regulations for the control of the carriage of opium from the Persian Gulf in British ships have, to a considerable extent achieved their object in restricting the opportunities of this firm to carry on their traffic in opium under the British flag.\n\n**COVERING DESPATCH** \nTo Sir C. Clementi, K.C.M.G., etc., etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "flag; nevertheless in spite of the attempt that the \n\nbusiness in opium, so far as the de Silva family is \n\nconcerned, is now confined to the firm of Azevedo & Gomasi \n\nin Bombay and to certain relatives in Europe, it seems \n\nclear that no branch of the family would be averse from \n\nre-engaging in the traffic if opportunity offered; \n\nindeed they are not still so engaged clandestinely. \n\n3. I trust therefore that your Government will \n\nnot relax its vigilance in this matter. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nhumble servant, \n\n**(S.) L. S. AMERY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## THE ANTI-NEMAZI CAMPAIGN\n\nMr. Haji Muhammed Hassan Nemazi, a Persian subject who was locally naturalised in Hongkong some years ago, is a well-known and well-to-do shipowner and merchant. Among his other activities, he has, for years, dealt in Persian opium on a big scale.\n\nAbout 3 or 4 years ago, it became clear that he was engaged in the opium smuggling trade, as consignment after consignment appeared under his name in the Persian Gulf consular shipping reports with no conceivable \"legitimate\" destination, since they were greatly in excess of the \"legitimate\" requirements of Macao and Japan. On arrival in the Far East, most of this opium disappeared \"into the blue\". Part of it was fairly definitely accounted for as imported into Macao, by the device of passing 4 \"chests\" into one \"case\", but the bulk of it was presumed to go (a) to China for smoking purposes (the importation of opium into China is officially prohibited) and/or (b) into Japan, for conversion into morphine, which in turn was largely smuggled into China.\n\nOn the representations of the Home Office (which Department is concerned by virtue of the fact that Sir M. Delevingne is the British Representative on the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee), backed by the Foreign Office, the Governor of Hongkong was instructed to do his utmost to put a stop to Nemazi's activities in this illicit", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "illicit traffic.\n\nSo far as we are aware, although this business was conducted from Hongkong, none of the opium was ever destined for the Colony. The Home Office and Foreign Office, however, were concerned at this business being conducted from a British Colony and in ships flying the British flag.\n\n`(CF.H.0.2632/24)`\n\nThe Governor's reply to repeated representations by the Home Office was that notoriety is not a substitute for evidence. Nemazi always appeared to be very careful to refrain from infringing the (quite stringent) Hongkong opium laws, and there was no evidence on which a charge could be brought under the Hongkong Ordinance. In spite of the mass of information in their possession, the Home Office were unable to provide any such definite evidence.\n\nThe next move (at the instance of the Home Office) was to amend the Ordinance to give the Hongkong Government the same rights of search of premises, books, etc., and rights to seize documents, etc., as the Home Office have under the Dangerous Drugs Acts; and when the Ordinance had been so amended, the Home Office constantly urged that advantage should be taken of these powers to raid Nemazi's premises. The Hongkong Government, however, was not willing to make a raid on the premises of such a prominent local figure, who had great legitimate trade interests, unless it was pretty certain that it would, in fact, be likely to produce evidence on which a charge could be based.\n\nShortly", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "(H.0.23965/24 and H.0.49286/24)\n\nShortly after this (1923) Nemazi left Hongkong for Persia and the Governor expressed the view that any hope of getting any evidence by a raid on the Hongkong office might be abandoned.\n\n(In the meantime Home Office turned their attention to the Persian Gulf end of Nemazi's operations, and after a prolonged discussion with the Foreign Office and Board of Trade, King's Regulations were issued (in 1925) by which it was made illegal for British ships to leave the Persian Gulf laden with opium until the Master had entered into a bond to deliver the opium at the declared destination).\n\nIn May 1924, Home Office took strong exception to the attitude of the Governor of Hongkong on this question. They doubted whether the Hongkong Government's interpretation of their Ordinance was correct, but suggested that the way to make sure of him was to amend the Hongkong Opium Ordinances to make it illegal for anyone in the Colony to deal in opium, whether in the Colony or elsewhere, except under licence.\n\nThey also pressed for (1) Nemazi's certificate of local naturalisation to be cancelled; (2) his commission as a J.P. to be cancelled; (3) in the event of his return to Hongkong (which was then understood to be imminent), for him or any member of his family or firm to be denied any travelling facilities.\n\nA despatch on these lines was addressed to the Governor and the upshot was (1)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "(1) The Hongkong Ordinance was amended as suggested (and subsequently the Hongkong branch of the firm was refused a licence to supply opium to the Japanese Government), and (2) Mr. Nemazi was invited to resign his Commission of the Peace. (Governor represented that (1) to remove him would cause great resentment in the Indian community and (2) that in spite of his opium dealings Nemazi was not such a disreputable person as Home Office we regard him.)\n\nHis certificate of naturalisation could not be revoked since it would be impossible to prove that he was concerned in the opium traffic at the time when his certificate was granted. Moreover in those days the law was not so strict, and even if he were so engaged it would not imply that he was a disreputable person.\n\nThe question of withholding travelling facilities has only just arisen, as he has only recently returned to Hongkong.\n\n27/7/26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506258, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "S.0.140.\n\nHome Office,\nWhitehall,\nS.W. 1.\n23rd July, 1926.\n\n5\n\nMy dear Grindle,\n\nPaskin's note of the 19th instant (`C.13188/26`) to Perrins about the draft despatch to Hong Kong on the case of Nemazee has come on to me. The question of allowing Nemazee facilities being one about which we feel strongly, I have consulted Sir John Anderson in regard to your objection to renewing the instructions which were given to the Governor by the Colonial Office in 1924 on our suggestion, and which were to the effect that \"if Mr. Nemazee returned to Hong Kong no travelling facilities which could in any way facilitate his illicit operations should in future be granted to him or members of his family or firm\". Your view, I gather, is that because there is no proof to controvert the claim that the Hong Kong firm have gone out of the opium business, and because there is only a mere suspicion that Nemazee may be doing what his son is able to do \"openly and lawfully\" under another British administration (I presume this is a reference to the branch at Bombay), Namazee should be allowed by the Hong Kong Government complete liberty of action to travel about in the Far East and to Persia, or anywhere else, where he might be able to do business in opium and drugs. This position seems to us to be indefensible. In view of the history and other countries' experience of Nemazee, he has no claim to be treated as though he were innocent until something definite can be proved against him. The onus of proof should be on him, in our opinion, and not on the Hong Kong Government. It is possible that he may keep clear of anything which could be regarded as illegal under the Hong Kong Ordinances, but our responsibility does not end there. As long as his\n\nThis\n\nAfter all the experience we", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## \n\nIf Nemazee and his branches continue to engage, as they are engaging at the present time, in the illicit opium traffic, it is clearly the duty of the British Government to do everything possible to hinder these proceedings. The fact that Nemazee is a British subject and that his branches in Macao, Shanghai, Bombay and elsewhere are engaged in carrying on the illicit opium business is already embarrassing to us at Geneva, and other countries are not going to allow us to forget it.\n\nIt is certainly unfortunate that the Indian Government have delayed so long to take the power necessary to enable them to deal with the Nemazee branch at Bombay and other persons who organise opium and drug transactions from Indian soil (it is not for want of any urging from here), but the fact that they have not yet done so clearly cannot be given as a reason for the Hong Kong Government to allow Nemazee to do what he likes, so long as he does not do it on Hong Kong soil.\n\nWe cannot see any ground for withdrawing the instructions which were given to the Governor in 1924 and which have only been in suspense hitherto because Nemazee has remained in Persia all the time.\n\nI return the draft despatch.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n**Malcoben Delevigne**\n\nSir Gilbert Grindle, K.C.M.G., C.B.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Confidential\nCR.4\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, \n23 FEB 1926\n\n### Reference to previous correspondence\n\n| Name and Date | Description of Enclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Art Consul, C.14608, 26 JUL 1926 | General, Bushire, Despatch: 18 JUL 1926 | activities of Haji Muhamad Hassan hemazee |\n\n(13843) 11/25 \nSimilar letter sent to one officer, India Office.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 2882/5/8` 187 and address—not to any person by name, but to The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nPage 187 \n`Fo8883` \n`716 35/5/8] A 22` \n`14 (13341) 7/25 (2)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## No.18.\n\n`(F2882/5/87)`\n\nThe British Residency and Consulate-General,\nBushire, 26th June 1926.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my despatch No.7, dated the 27th March 1926,\nI have the honour now to enclose a copy of despatch No.1 in `210/1915`, dated the 25th May 1926, with enclosure, which I have received from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong,\nregarding the family of Haji Muhammad Hassan Nemazee, the opium merchant.\n\nI have etc.,\n(Sgd)\nF.P. Prideaux\nLt-Colonel,\nH.M's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\nForeign Office,\nLondon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "No.1 in `210/1915`\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG, \n25th May 1926.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter **Confidential No.118-S** of 19/26(?) of the 27th March 1926, on the subject of the naturalisation of Haji Muhammad Hassan Nema zee, and to inform you that the certificate of naturalisation which was issued to him on 17th July 1916, was endorsed to extend to his son Ahmed born in 1901 and to his daughter Sophia born in 1903. I enclose a copy of the paragraph of his application for naturalisation dealing with the extension of the certificate to these two children.\n\nIt will be seen that no mention is made of the son Agha. \n\nFrom enquiries recently made it would appear that this son is now 31 years of age and so might have been over 21 years of age at the date of issue of the certificate.\n\nThe British Resident \nand Consul-General, \nBUSHIRE.\n\nI have etc.,\n(Sgd) C. Clements\nGovernor, etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506263, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "562 \n\nParagraph 7 of the application of Mr. H.M.H. Nemazee. \n\n7. Your Memorialist further humbly prays that the \n**Certificate of Naturalisation** applied for on his own \nbehalf should extend not only to him personally but also \nto the following children of his by his wife, viz:- \n| Name | Age | Date of Birth | Place of Birth |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ahmed Nemazee | 14 years | 13th November 1901 | \"Rocklands\", Robinson Road |\n| Sophia Nemazee | 12 years | 13th March 1903 | \"Gulistan\", No.3 Conduit Road |\n\nSuch children are at present time resident with your Memorialist at \"Gulistan\", No. 3, Conduit Road, aforesaid. \n\nDated the 15th day of March 1916.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nDear Perrins,\n\nBefore sending you to H.K. about Numazi again, I had to consider whether you should be instructed on traveling facilities for premiers of the Numazi firm.\n\nAfter discussion, I felt that the absence of any proof, having regard to the claim that it is hard to controvert, means that H.K. should have gone out of their way to examine the opinion of Lumless regarding a visit to Numazi & that of the passing of the Gulf Regulations at the time of the ... it would be difficult to cast away (924 H.4. Persian ... it ...\n\n17.D. Perrins Tyy. from me Mr. Paskin 16/7 \nMr. M. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery.\n\n70. / C. 13/88/20 172.\n\nSo for my sig. C. R 11 \n17 JULY 19... July: 20. \n\nconsulted with you without ... \nConson ... \n\nwas to be instructed ... \nthe off. Desp. was ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "to justify the \n(wh. \ndis \nindustrial \ndenial of traveling facilities \nrequired for convenience of the firm) \nLe \nwing \nby minute \nLegislative \nLegislature \nceased \nKant \nhis \n\nMoreover if \nmere suspicion that \nNemazi ming \n5 \nJoni \nine \nat was \nNemazi \n13 \ntraffic in \nin opinion \nit seems \nhe would not have \nif he & members of his firm had facilities, \ndifference in \nable to \nopenly & fully \nundis \nanother \nBritish Administration \nSimilar \nfinding \nSuitable \nemissary \nto you \n(e.g.) \nto Shanghai. \nwe \nhave \nno objection \nis \nKe \namendments wh. I have \nmade in, \njust \nSimilar \nLinks \nthat \nthe dispatch \nis amended \n(i \nwithout \nthe pencil \nnote on the \nsecond page) \n\nomitted \nmeant \nto jo. \n(8) \nJ.Passin", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "C.13168/26/17K\n\n19 July, 1920.\n\nDear Perrins,\n\nBefore sending you the draft despatch to Hongkong about Nemuzi, I had consulted Grindle as to whether the Governor should again be instructed to withhold travelling facilities from members of the Nemuzi firm. After discussion, we felt that, having regard to the absence of any proof to controvert the claim that the Hongkong firm have gone out of the opium business as a result of the passing of 1924 Hongkong Ordinance and the issue of the Persian Gulf Regulations, it would be difficult to justify the denial of travelling facilities (which may be required for the ordinary legitimate business of the firm) on mere suspicion that Nemuzi may be doing what his son is able to do openly and lawfully under another British administration.\n\nMoreover, if Nemuzi were determined to traffic in opium, it seems certain that, even if he and members\n\nM. D. PERRINS ESQ.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "of his firm were denied such facilities, he would have no difficulty in finding a suitable emissary to go (e.g.) to Shanghai.\n\nWe have no objection to the amendments which I have inked in, but Grindle thinks that the despatch, as so amended (i.e. without the pencil addition at the bottom of the second page) is as far as we ought to go.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(s) ? Passen\n\n565", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "482,809/91\n\n2\n\n16th July, 1926\n\nDear Paskin,\n\nI return your draft about Nemazi with some suggested additions by Delevingne, which perhaps you will consider.\n\nYours sincerely,\nMoverris\n\nJ. J. Paskin, Esq., M.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Paskin 5/7.\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.\nA Strachey.\n\nF.O./C.13188/26. H.K. (on Permis)\n\nTo go to H.O./for concurrence.\n\n6.\n\n8817. Downing Street, July, 1926.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nSir G. Grindle. 7/7 f.s. (subject to H.O. concurrence).\nSir C. Davis.\nSir S. Wilson.\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\nEarl of Clarendon.\nMr. Amery.\n\nSir,\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nHONG KONG. SECRET. Conf.\n\nGOV.(8883)\n\nEncl.& Sub-encl.in 9298\nEncl. & Sub-encls.in 13188.\n\nCopies to H.O. 1.f.f. F.O.\n\nWith reference to the despatch No.118-S dated the 27th of March from His Majesty's Consul General, Bushire, reporting the departure of Haji Muhammad Hassan Nemazi from Persia for Hong Kong, I have etc., to transmit to you the accompanying copies of further despatches from His Majesty's Minister", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "## Memorandum in regard to Nemazi's activities during the past year, and the Notes of a conversation between His Majesty's Consul, Shiraz, and Nemazi's second son.\n\nIt would appear from these documents that the amendment of the H.K. Opium Ordinance in 1924, and the promulgation of the King's Regulations for the control of the carriage of opium from the Persian Gulf in British Ships have, to a considerable extent, achieved their object in restricting the opportunities of this firm to carry on their traffic.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "traffic in opium under the British flag.\n\nNevertheless, in spite of the statement that the business in opium, so far as the Nemazi family is concerned, is now confined to the firm of Aqa Ali Nemazi in Bombay and to certain relatives in Persia, it seems clear that no branch of the family would be averse to re-engaging in the traffic should opportunity offer - if indeed they are not still so engaged clandestinely.\n\nI trust, therefore, that your Government will not relax its vigilance in this matter.\n\nI have, etc.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506272, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. 2533/5/8 J` \nand address—not to any person by name, but to-- \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nC \n-1- \n18288 \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \ncompliments to The Under-Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies \nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n30 June \n1926. \n`FO 9298`. \n`FO. 12601` \n\n| Reference to previous correspondence | Name and Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| `71739/5/87` of 29 April 1926 | |\n| `42459/604/87` of 19 June 1926 | |\n\nDescription of Enclosure: \nDespatch from the Hey Minister, Tehran, \n`2252` of 27 Mar 1926 \nSubject: Activities of Haji Muhammad Hassan \nhemaz \n\nSimilar letter sent to Home Office, India Office, Board of Trade", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# No. 252.\n\n`(F_2533/5/87)`\n\nSir,\n\n## BRITISH LEGATION,\nTehran.\n27th May, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith copies of correspondence as marked below, on the subject of Mr. Chick's interview with Mr. Haji Muhammad Namazi in connection with the opium trade.\n\nReference: - Sir P. Loraine's despatch No. 184 of the 8th April 1926.\n\nI have the honour etc.,\n(Signed) Percy Loraine.\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\n**FOREIGN OFFICE**.\n\nFrom His Majesty's Consul Shiras, despatch No. 31 dated the 5th May, 1926, with inclosure.\n\n| Destination | Details |\n| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |\n| Foreign Secretary to the Government of India | Copy has been forwarded under cover of Printed Letter No. 106 of even date. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# No. 81\n\n**British Consulate, Shiraz.**\n\n5th May, 1926.\n\nIn 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 Muhammad Namazi, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan Harazi of Hongkong regarding the opium trade, and a claim in that connection.\n\n2. Points of particular interest are his 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 Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi himself nor his firm in Hongkong have had any dealings in opium in 1925 and 1926; his statement that his brother's firm \"A. Namazi 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 order to give a fillip to the Indian opium export.\n\nI have etc.,\n\nSir F.L. Loraine, Bart., K.C.M.G., \nHis Majesty's Minister, \netc., \netc., \netc., \nTehran.\n\n(Signed) H.G. Chick.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Notes of conversation with Mr. Haji Mubaamad Hamazi:\n\nMay 5th, 1926.\n\nMr. Haji Mahammad Namazi, the second son of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi of Hongkong (and a highly educated young man, whose English is perfect and knowledge of European business and legal matters evidently deep) called on me today to consult me regarding a claim which his firm in Hongkong have against a Chinese buyer of opium. Mr. Haji Muhammed Namazi has, I understand, been away from Hongkong for more than a year, travelling in Europe, whence he arrived in Shiraz a few months ago; his father recently left Shiraz for India en route to Hongkong, and Mr. Haji Muhammad is temporarily remaining here, for family reasons, it is stated.\n\nHis claim appears to me to be bristling with legal difficulties.\n\nIn 1924, when he was still in Hongkong and the Ordinance against transactions in opium had not yet been promulgated in that Colony, a certain Chinaman of Swatow, who had one business in that port under a name not his own, and a business in Shanghai under his Brother's name, signed a contract with Mr. Namazi for the purchase and delivery at Bushire of a quantity of chests of opium. The contract stipulated for deposit of part of the price and payment of the rest at Bushire on shipment. The S.S. \"Tai-tak\" (see Residency Diary No. 99 of 1925) sailing under the Portuguese flag arrived at Bushire, (Mr. Namazi has since given the date as May 1924, saying that the present is the third voyage of the ship to Bushire) but the Chinese party did not fulfil the contract, and eventually secured the opium, having paid only some 60,000 dollars (since changed to 20,000 by telegram from Hongkong) leaving 290,000 dollars owing, and still owing today.\n\nThe Namazi firm in Hongkong were unable to secure payment...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "payment of this balance in China, though the youngest brother of Mr. Bamani, Mr. Ahmad Namasi, has been to Swatow and searched for the debtor: the conditions at Swatow during the recent troubles have made it impossible to bring the debtor to book in a Mixed Court.\n\nHow Mr. Hamasi's firm have heard that this defaulting Chinaman is again sending the same steamship to Bushire (possibly with the same supercargo) and the ship should be at Bushire this week to purchase and load a consignment from the Behbehani and Kasaruni opium firm (it is not certain which).\n\nMr. Hanasi on behalf of his firm applied to me for British assistance to have this fresh consignment attached on account of the Chinese buyer's debt to Messrs. Namazi after the supercargo or representative of the Chinese buyer has paid the Behbahani or Kasaruni firm, and while it is in the lighters for shipment, or at any rate in the Customs at Bushire. Once the opium is attached, Mr. Banasi is confident that the Chinese buyer will come to term and pay the major part, if not all, of his debt to Messrs. Namasi.\n\nMr. Namazi is sending a special representative to Bushire, but not going himself, in order not to excite suspicions among the Chinese on the vessel: and he is anxious that the attachment should take place at the last moment before the opium leaves the shore, in order to ensure that the Behbehani or Kasaruni firms will have no further claim to it, and will not join with the Chinese in opposing attachment.\n\nI pointed out to Mr. Hamasi, in the first place, that legal action was required in Bushire, that I could take no action in Shiraz, unless he agreed to forward through", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "through me an application to the Consular Court in Bushire, \nwhich he was equally at liberty to make direct. I then \ngave him to read King's Regulation No. 1 of 1926 regarding \ndealings in opium, and pointed out that the Court at \nBushire might conceivably find objections to taking action \non his application, connected with this or other Regulations. \nMr. Namasi was confident that his claim was not affected \nby the Regulations. \n\nLater he brought round, and read to me a draft of \nhis proposed application to the Court of the District \nJudge at Bushire, which, I understand, he will send to \nBushire at once by the hands of a special representative, \nto whom he will give a Power of Attorney and authority to \npay expenses. The case appears complicated because (1) \nthe documents relating to the contract are in the Hongkong \noffice of Messrs. Namazi, and Str. Samazi does not know \nthe exact sum still due with interest, (2) he does not \nknow exactly how many chests could reasonably be attached \nin the Customs at Bushire as the equivalent of his claim, \nwhether 180 or more, (3) until the last moment before \nthe chests are passed out of the Customs his representative \nwill not know whether the Bahbehani or Kasaruni firm is \nthe seller to his Chinese debtor, and how many chests, \n160 or less, are sold to this particular Chinese debtor, \n(4) Chinese subjects do not enjoy extra-territorial \nrights in Persia, nor are they actionable in a British \nConsular Court: would the British Consular court be able \nto obtain the consent of the Persian Customs to act on a \ndirect request, or would the Karguzarate have to be the \nchannel? \n\nMr. Namasi became more communicative, as this long \n\n## second \n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506278, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "second interview went on, and expressed his regret at any \nprejudice against his firm, which might exist in, or occur \nto British official minds on account of this or other \ntransactions. \n\nHe referred to Sir Percy Loraine's warning \nto his father in April 1925, and said that his father's \nstatement that he was not dealing in opium was a fact, \nnot a promise. Since the Hongkong Ordinance was promulgated \nin the autumn of 1924, neither his father personally nor \nhis firm in Hongkong had any dealings in opium: in fact \nthey could not, even if they wanted, because of the Ordinance. \nThey had applied for a Government license to deal with \nFormosa (or Japan) and he was not certain what \nthe outcome was. The deal, for which he was now trying \nto recover payment in Basrah, was the last made by \nhis father (his firm in Hongkong?) in 1924 before the \nOrdinance. Since then any business by members of his \nfamily in opium had been by the firm of his oldest \nbrother (Aqa Ali Namazi) in Bombay and by relatives in \nShiraz, Aqa Muhammad Mehdi Hamasi and Aqa Muhammad Ja'far \nNamazi (the latter a partner in the Bombay firm). And the \nfirm of Aqa Ali Namazi in India was free under the law \nto deal in opium as any other British or foreign merchants \nin India. Nearly all sales, except those for Persia, were \nmade for Shanghai, where the Chinese Governor made \nmillions of dollars a year from the special tax he levied. \nThe Chief of Police of the International Settlement at \nShanghai had recently recommended that import there \nshould be allowed under licence, instead of being \nsmuggled promiscuously. Mr. Hamasi thought that this was \nthe best solution for the Persian opium problem - \nexport to China should be allowed under license. \n\n## Page 174", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "He then referred to the ignorant, but strong impression among Persians that the British Government was by these Regulations, and generally, trying to step the Persian trade in opium in order to favour Indian opium, and find it a market. He instanced the prejudice of the U.S.A. Financial Advisers at Tehran which had caused them to fall into the same error.\n\nThe Chinese prefer Indian to Persian opium for smoking, just as there are different tastes in tobacco; and in 1919 it was represented to Mr. Namazi that, if he mixed a proportion of Indian chests in his Persian shipments, a better sale and prices would be obtained in China. He was the first therefore to cause Indian opium to be sent to Bushire, where, in the proportion of, say, 50 to 250 or 300 chests, it was shipped to China. This went on till 1924, thereby assisting the sale of Persian opium and prices obtained.\n\nThen someone represented to the Persian Government that the bringing of Indian opium to Bushire for re-shipment was damaging Persian opium trade, and the U.S.A. Advisers shortsightedly - though he thought they were also actuated by a special animus against his firm for some reason or other - prohibited the re-shipment of Indian opium from Persia.\n\nH.G.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935", "content_text": "2. The composition of the Committee was the following:-\n\nMr. W.J. Johnson, O.B.E., Treasurer Chairman.\n\nMr. A.P.S. Clark, M.B.E.\n\nMr. S. Hoofien, M.B.E.\n\nHaj Taher Bey Karaman\n\nAbdel Rahman Bey Taji\n\nDr. M. Smoira\n\nEl Haj Muhammad Nimr Eff. el Nabulsi\n\nMr. A. Shenkar\n\nShukri Eff. Deeb\n\nMr. V.N. Levi, Junior Assistant Treasurer\n\nRajai Eff. Husseini, Junior Assistant Treasurer\n\nMembers.\n\nJoint Secretaries.\n\n27\n\n3. We held our first meeting on the 15th November 1933, and it was at once apparent that the data available in Palestine was so inadequate that the Committee would have to depend to a large extent on the advice of experts. We, therefore, decided to appoint a Sub-Committee under the Chairmanship of the Treasurer, Government of Palestine, with Mr. A.P.S. Clark of Barclays Bank and Mr. S. Hoofien of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, Dr. Smoira and Haj Taher Karaman as members.\n\nThe Sub-Committee was to consider and report on Part I of the terms of reference.\n\n4. During the month of February 1934, at the request of the Sub-Committee, the Chairman interviewed representatives of the under-mentioned Banks with a view to obtaining independent evidence on the opinions formulated by the Sub-Committee:-\n\nThe Ottoman Bank\n\nBanco di Roma\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935", "content_text": "59\n\n(Signed) A. P.S. Clark.\n\nS. Hoofien.\n\nHaj Taher Bey Karaman.\n\nAbdel Rahman Bey Taji.\n\nM. Smoira.\n\nEl Haj Muhammad Nimr Eff.el Nabulsi.\n\nA. Shenkar.\n\nShukri Eff.Deeb.\n\nSubject to reservations attached.\n\n(Signed) V.N. Levi.\n\nJoint Secretaries.\n\nRajai S. Husseini.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-6 Banking crisis 24-9-1935 - 18-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557522, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "content_text": "# THE PALESTINE GAZETTE\n## 6th February, 1936\n### 139\n\n## APPOINTMENT OF CONSUL\n\n### NOTICE\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government directs it to be notified for general information that **MR. LELAND B. MORRIS** has been temporarily appointed by the United States Government to the post of Consul-General at Jerusalem, pending the arrival of **MR. GEORGE WADSWORTH**, whose appointment was notified in the Palestine Gazette of the 30th January, 1936, and that **MR. MORRIS** has been provisionally recognised by His Excellency in that capacity pending the issue of His Majesty's Exequatur.\n\n4th February, 1936.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n**S. MOODY** Acting Chief Secretary.\n`(N/5/31)`\n\n## APPOINTMENTS, ETC.\n\nThe acting appointment of **MR. M. NUROCK, O.B.E.**, Assistant Secretary, Grade F, Secretariat, published in Palestine Gazette No. 569 of the 30th January, 1936, ceased with effect from the 5th February, 1936.\n\n## APPOINTMENTS\n\nThe High Commissioner has appointed:—\n- **MR. F. G. HORWILL**, to be Examiner of Banks, Treasury, with effect from the 16th January, 1936.\n- **MR. C. F. GEARON**, Assistant Engineer (Mechanical) Grade K, Department of Public Works, to be Mechanical Engineer, with effect from the 18th January, 1936.\n- **MR. H. A. M. DAVIES** to be Junior Assistant Superintendent of Surveys, Grade K, Department of Lands and Surveys, with effect from the 20th January, 1936.\n\n## LEAVE\n\nThe High Commissioner has approved the leave of the following officers.\n\n| Officer | Dates |\n|---------|--------|\n| **MR. W. G. BUTTOLPH**, Palestine Police Force and Prisons Service | 25.1.36-8.6.36 |\n| **HASSAN MOHAMMAD EFF. KHATIB**, Palestine Police Force and Prisons Service | 1.2.36-13.3.36 |\n\n## ACTING APPOINTMENT\n\nThe High Commissioner has appointed:-\n- **MR. A. N. CAPNER**, Electrical Foreman, Grade L, Department of Public Works, to act as Electrical Engineer, Grade H, with effect from the 18th January, 1936, until further order.\n\n## MEDICAL LICENCES\n\nLicences to practise medicine granted during the month of December, 1935, by the Director of Medical Services under section 4 of the Medical Practitioners Ordinances, 1928-1935.\n\n## TERMINATION OF ACTING APPOINTMENTS\n\nThe High Commissioner directs it to be notified for general information that:-\n- The acting appointment of **MR. S. MOODY O.B.E.**, Assistant Chief Secretary, Grade D, Secretariat, published in Palestine Gazette No. 569 of the 30th January, 1936, ceased with effect from the 5th February, 1936.\n\n| Licence No. | Name | Address |\n|------------|------|---------|\n| DR.2294 | Edith Goldberg Weber | Haifa |\n| DR.2295 | Szymon Szilmower | Haifa |\n| DR.2296 | Ludwig Schoenholz | Jerusalem |\n| DR.2297 | Karl Rosenthal | Jerusalem |\n| DR.2298 | Ludwig Ascher | Jerusalem |\n| DR.2299 | Richard Priwin | Tel-Aviv |\n| DR.2300 | Alfred Glaser | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]