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Delevingne should arrange a private conference with the representa.
tives of those Countries,
4.
That in the event of a discussion taking place in the
Second Conference on the subject of the American proposals, the
British delegate should make us full a statement as possible of
the polloy of the British Government. In particular, he should
renew the suggestion of the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry
to be appointed by the League, to visit the Countries concerned;
and it should be considered whether he should not also be authorisel
to gay
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(s) that as regarde Hong Kong, when the smuggling of opium
into the Colony from China sesses, His Majesty's Government 11
be prepared to enforce complete prohibition of the practice of
opium smoking in the Colony:
(b) that as regards Malaya (where the opium monopoly
revemes constitute a very large part of the revenues of the
Colony and independent States) His Majesty's Government have
Bready decided to instrust the local Governments of the Struita
Settlements to prepare & scheme for the reorganisation of the
finances and budget of the Colony with a view to rendering them
independent within a reasonable period of the profits of the
monopoly, and that similar messures will be recommended to the
independent States.
5. That Sir Malcolm Delevingne should at once prepare a
memorandum on the speech made by Mr. Porter in the Second Conference
when putting forward the American proposals on Chapter II. of the Convention, which should be submitted to the Foreign Office with
a view to their considering the question of making strong
representations to Washington on the impropriety of the allegations
made against the British Government; and that subsequently similar
memoranda should be prepared by the Home Office and the India
Office on other unwarranted allegations made at the Conference with
2.