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FOREICH OFFICEL
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November th301901.]]
As you are doubtless aware, llis lajesty's Government
in replying to the invitation of the United States Govern-
ment to attend a Conference on the Opium question, laid it
down as a condition of their participation that the Confer-
ence should thoroughly and completely deal with the question
of restricting the manufacture, sale and distribution of
morphia and cocaine.
The British delegates are being instructed that this
is a subject to which His Majesty's Covernment attach
sspecial importance, in view of the spread of the morphia
and cocaine habit in India, in China, and in other Eastern
countries, and that as Indian and Chinese experience shows
that legislation against the importation of morphia and
cocaine cannot be made thoroughly effective owing to the
ease with which it can be evaded in practice, it becomes
desirable to secure co-operation on the part of the Govern-
monte concerned in the shape of control over the manufacture
be Under Secretary of State,
Home Office.
and