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British Delegates on the
International Opium
Gentlemen:
Conference.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
November
1911.
155
You have already been informed
that His Majesty's Government have
selected you to be the British delegates at
the conference which is to meet at The
Hague on December 1st. to conventionalize
the resolutions of the Shanghai Opium
Commission and to discuss the question of
restricting the manufacture, sale and dis-
tribution of morphia and cocaine.
In September 1909 the United
States Government invited the Governments
which were represented on the Shanghai
International Opium Commission to send
delegates, furnished with full powers, to
an international conference to negotiate
and conclude an agreement conventionaliz-
ing