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London,
In any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No. 7556/14.
and address
The Undor-Secretary of Stato.
Foreign Office,
119
REGS 2 FEB 14
FOREIGN OFFICE
February 28 1914.
Sir:-
His Majesty's Government have accepted the invitation
of the Netherland Government to send delegates to take
part in a Conference to be held at The Hague in the month
of May next for the purpose of considering the means which
should be taken to bring into force the International
Opium Convention of 1912.
Secretary Sir E. Grey considers it desirable that an
Interdepartmental Committee should be consituted, as on
previous occasions, in order to discuss the instructions
to be given to the British delegates, and I am directed by
him to enquire whether your Department will be willing to
appoint a representative to serve on the Committee.
A similar letter has been addressed to the Privy
Council Uffiee, India Office, the Board of Trade and the
Home Office, and I am to state that on receiving replies
from the various Departments concerned the Secretary of
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
State