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BOARD OF TRADE.
6/1912. Immediate.
(566).
(Commercial Department 12 JAN 12.
GWYDYR HOUSE. WHITEHALL.
LONDON, S.W.,
3rd. January, 1912.
Sir:-
I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of December 30th, transmitting prints
of the proposed Convention and other documents drafted at the
International Opium Conference, with a view to regulating
the trade in Opium, its derivatives, and other habit forming
drugs.
The Board observe that the proposals for regulating the
trade in morphia, cocaine, etc. do not include any provision
such as that suggested at the informal Conference which was
held at the Foreign Office prior to the departure of the
British Delegates for the Hague, with regard to exports to
countries not adhering to the proposed Convention.
Should
the Convention become operative, and should certain trading
countries fail to adhere to it, there would apparently be no
restriction
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.