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Conference, although in view of the con-
tents of these Resolutions there is some
doubt whether there is much scope for in-
ternational action, and whether the ground
for fruitful discussion has as yet been
cleared by the completion in each country
of the detailed enquiries and measures of
reform which the Commission recommended.
In particular His Majesty's Government de-
sire to be assured that if they partici-
pate in a Conference, the other participat-
ing Powers are willing that the Conference
should thoroughly and completely deal with
the question of restricting the manufac-
ture, sale and distribution of morphia,
which forms the subject of the fifth Reso-
lution of the Shanghai Commission;
also with the allied question of cocaine.
and
In India, in China, and in other Eastern
countries the importation of morphia and
cocaine from occidental countries, and the
spread of morphia and the cocaine habit,
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