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alise the Opium Resolutions of the Shanghai Commission.

Opium reform had already advanced very largely,

thanks mainly to the generous cooperation at a material

loss to herself, which India had given to the Chinese

anti-opium policy, and even if the present Conference

were to come to nothing the stimulus thus given would

continue to act. The proposed measures in respect of

morphine and cocaine, on the other hand, required in-

ternational agreement and cooperation to render them

essary.

effective, and for this purpose a Convention was nec-

Nevertheless the American Delegation now

proposed a course which would have the effect of treat-

ing the opium articles as of primary importance and ·

bringing them into effect with comparatively little re-

ference to outside Powers, while the morphine and

cocaine articles would take a back place and be sub-

ject to a much longer process before they could come

into force. In fact this procedure might perfectly

well lead to their being shelved altogether. Such a

course was emphatically opposed to the condition which

His Majesty's Government had laid down as indispensable

to their taking part in the Conference, and Sir

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