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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Dept. of Commerce and Industry.
EXCISE.
F. & S. 1382.
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CONFIDENTIAL 62 16 JUN
15 June 1911.
FROM
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,
To
THE SECY. OF STATE FOR INDIA.
No. 26 OF 1911.
Dated Simla, the 11th May 1911.
Received
Proposed adoption of measures to restrict the supply of cocaine to India from the countries from which it is exported.
I am directed by the Secretary of State jor
India in Counil to enclose, for the information of
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of
26 Excise, a letter from the Government of India calling d 11th May, 1 spara
attention to the spread of the cocaina habit in
Burma and other purts of India, and expressing the
viaw that their efforts towards the suppression of
the habit will be fruitless unless something is done
to restrict the export of the drug and its congeners
from the chief manufacturing countries. The
information now supplied by the Government of India
affords further evidence of the importance of bringing
the morphia and cocaine question before the proposed
Optum Conferance.
Meanwhile I am to suggest that, with Sir B.
Grey's permission, u copy of the Goverrument of India's
G. C. B. P., Simls.-No. C-15 0. & I. D2--6-5-11.-96—B‚C.0
Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
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