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Question asked in the House of Commons, March 28, 1911.
Mr. Theodore Taylor,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the date upon which the International Conference upon Opium and Dangerous Drugs is to meet at the Hague, and which are the Powers to be represented there.
Answer.
The 1st July has been suggested as the date for the meeting of the conference at the Hague, but no definite decision has yet been come to regarding it. The countries invited to attend are those which took part in the International Opium Conference which sat at Shanghai in the spring of 1909. They are: The United States, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Austria- Hungary, Italy, Siam, and Persia.
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