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participation that the Conference should
217 thoroughly and completely deal with the question of restricting the manufacture,
sale and distribution of morphia and
cocaine. This indeed is a subject to
which His Majesty's Covermont attach especial importance, in view of the spread
of the morphia and cocaine habit in India,
in China and in other Eastern countries.
Indian and Chinese experience shows that
legialation rgainst the importation of
morphia and cocaine must fail to be
thoroughly effective owing to the ease with
which it can be evaded in practice, and
consequently suggests the desirability of co-operation on the part of the Home and
Foreign Governments in the shape of control
over manufacturs and distribution.
You
will therefore use your best efforts to
secure the assistance of the Governments re-
presented at the Conference towards obtain-
ing this end.
His