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HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S LEGATION,
ATHENS.
11th April, (29th March) 1914.
Monsieur le Ministre:-
His Britannic Majesty's Government have had
knowledge of the Note dated the 23rd of December 1913
(5th January 1914), in which Your Excellency informed
the Netherlands Minister at Athens that the Hellenic
Government are ready to sign the Oplum Convention of
1912, but only with the reservation that they cannot
undertake at present any obligation with regard to
the cultivation and production of opium.
His majesty's Government have learnt with
great regret this attitude of the Hellenic Government,
and have instructed me to lend earnest support to the
fresh representations which have been made by my
colleague Monsieur de Sturler, and to impress upon
Your Excellency the desirability of withdrawing a
reservation which tends to render nugutory the signa-
tures of the other parties to the Convention, and to
negative
Fxcellency
Vonsieur Streit
&c.,
&c., ac.