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item (a) of the tentative programme that, in drawing
up laws and regulations there should be no interference
with the sovereign rights of any nation; that in re-
gard to item (1) that offences against any agreement
that the powers might make should be punished by each
country according to its own penal laws; that in re-
gard to item (1) that the right of search of vessels
should be restricted by the Governments concerned to
vessels found within their own territorial waters; and
in regard to item (n) that there would be no need of an
international commission to supervise any agreement
reached by the Conference and assented to by the inter-
ested Governments.
The Italian Government has pointed out the import-
ance of the question of the traffic in Indian hemp drugs
to that Government, and has suggested that the Confer-
ence might advantageously deal with the question of
this traffic.
The Netherlands Government while agreeing to the
general principles of the tentative programme, at the
same time observed that for the Netherlands Indies
where the culture of the poppy does not exist and where
the opium regiè is or will be introduced, the question
of
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