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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No.
and address ---
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
Immediate.
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Sir:-
REC
40551
344
RrGE 19 DEC 11)
FOREIGN OFFICE
December 18th, 1911.
With reference to my letter of the 15th. instant,
on the subject of the Opium Conference, I am directed
by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for the information
of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Mr.
Max Müller, writing on behalf of the British Delegates,
has called attention to the fact that the expression
*prepared opium" as defined by the Conference, is
intended to refer simply to opium prepared for consump-
tion by smoking or eating, and not to opium dried of
powdered for the manufacture of morphia.
3.0.
With regard to the point raised in your letter
39988/1911 of the 14th. instant, Mr. Max Müller is
inclined to think that the adoption of the proposed
resolution prohibiting the importation and exportation
of prepared oplum would not affect the supply of that
article by a British Colony to a State under British
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
protection