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Memorandum
on the Opium Trade in the Eastern Colonies, with
special reference to the International Opium Convention
signed at the Rogue on the 23rd January,1912. (Continuation of remorandum prepared in the Celonial office on the 10th February, 1981.)
A
1. The following declaration was appended
to the signatures of the British Delegates to the Opium
Convention of 19131-
"The articles of the present Convention,
if ratified by His British Majesty's Government, shall
apply to the Government of British India,Ceylon, Straita
Settimaants, Hong Kong, and Wei Hai Wei in every respect
in the same way as they shall apply to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland".
2. Article 23 of the Convention provided
that it should come into foron 3 menthe „fter the date
of receipt of the last instrument of ratification.
The process of ratification by the various signatory
powers was suspended by the outbreak of War in August,
1914.
a.
Under Article 295 of the Treaty of
Versailles it was provided that those of the High
Contrnoting Parties who had not yet signed or ratified
the Opium Convention should agree to bring the said
Convention into force; and for this purpose, to enact
the necessary legislation within 12 months of the
coming into foron of the Treaty. The Convention
Recordingly become effective, so far as the British
Empire le concerned, on the 10th January, 1920.