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The Under-Secretary of State.
Foreign Office,
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Pressing.
Sir:-
London.
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/// DOMINIONS.
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1810
R18 JAN 12
FOREIGN OFFICE 460
January 17th, 1912.
With reference to my letter of the 15th instant
enclosing a copy of despatch No.9 from the British
Delegates to the Opium Conference at the Hague I am
directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you,
herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, copy of a Declaration on the
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subject of the adhesion of the Dominions to the Opium
Convention, which the Delegates propose to make at
the time of signing the Convention.
Sir E. Grey proposes, subject to the concurrence
of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, to instruct the Delegates
to make this Declaration and to have it inserted in
the "Protocole de clôture" of the Convention in order
that it may be brought to the notice of the other
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
signatory