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Rece Reet 27 AUG 10
1910.
Registry No. 28253/10.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
August-
Draft.
American
Austrian Ambassador.
Your Excellency:-
I have the honour to inform Your
Excellency that I am now in a position to
reply to the proposal of the United States
Government contained in your note of the
23rd. of September last as to the represen-
tation of this country in the Internation-
al Opium Conference which is to be held at
The Hague for the purpose of conventionali-
sing the Resolutions of the Shanghai Com-
mission.
His Majesty's Government are no
less convinced than the Government of the
United States as to the necessity of sup-
pressing the opium evil and I have the
honour to inform Your Excellency that they
are prepared, subject to certain conditions
and reservations, to take part in a Confer-
ence