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Sir:-
THE HAGUE,
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December 7th ISLAN 12
367
I have the honour to report that the Internation-
al Opium Conference met here us arranged on the 1st
instant, and assembled in the Hall of Knights.
enclose herewith a complete list of the delegates,
I
all
of whom were present except those of Italy who only
arrived at the Hague on the 7th instant.
The chair was provisionally taken by Monsieur
van Swinderen who welcomed the Conference to the
Hague in a speech the text of which will be found in
the proces verbal of the First sitting.
He was fol-
lowed by Monsieur Cremer, the First Delegate of the
Netherlands, who speaking first in English and sub-
sequently in French, proposed that Bishop Brent, the
First United States Delegate should be elected Chairmen
of the Conference adducing in support of his motion the
ability and impartiality with which the Bishop had discharged
Right Honourable,
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.
&c.
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ac.,