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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[July 29.
SECTION 3.
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No. 1.
Note communicated by Count Metternich, July 29, 1911.
THE United States Embassy in Berlin having enquired if the Imperial Government will be ready for the Opium Conference by the 1st October, the American chargé d'affaires has been informed that the Imperial Government is in favour of the conference meeting on the 1st October, and that the Imperial Government approve in principle of the propositions made by Great Britain. The Imperial Government expressly agree that the conference shall treat the questions relating to morphia and cocaine, and has undertaken to collect as far as possible statistical data. The sale of morphia and cocaine is, in Germany, very strictly regulated by law, and further legislation to make the regulations more stringent are contemplated. It is obvious that, pending the new regulations being drafted, the Imperial Government could not enter for the present into binding international agreements about this last point.
German Embassy, London,
July 28, 1911.
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