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Secretary of State for the Home Department, that it might be advisable if the second sentence of paragraph 2 of the draft note were altered to read "The British Govern- ment are prepared to agree to a declaration to this effect if the other parties to the Agreement do likewise...'
3. A copy of this letter is being sent to the Home Office.
14028/1/33 [No. 14].
I am, &c.,
H. R. COWELL.
No. 55.
FOREIGN OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
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DRAFT NOTE.
For the transportation of prepared opium from the Government factory at Batavia to places situated in East Sumatra and for returning such opium from places in East Sumatra to that factory the administration of the Opium Régie in Netherlands India sometimes has to make use of vessels which call at Singapore or at Penang.
The Netherlands Government are of opinion that Article VI, second paragraph, of the Agreement of Geneva of 11th February, 1925, which prohibits with regard to prepared opium the transit through, or trans-shipment in, possessions or territories into which opium is imported for the purpose of smoking, does not apply to such transit, if prepared opium is in course of conveyance between two ports belonging to the same possession or territory. The British Government are prepared to agree to a declaration to this effect if the other parties to the Agreement do likewise.
In view of the desirability of making the position as to the said transit quite clear, Her Majesty's Government would, therefore, highly appreciate to be informed of the
..Government's opinion on the subject.
(Copy received in Colonial Office, 14th September, 1933.)
SIR,
Foreign Office, S.W.1, 12th September, 1933. WITH reference to India Office letter E. & O. 5007/33 of 11th July last, I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to transmit herewith copy of a note from the Netherlands Minister enclosing a draft declaration in its final form which the Nether- lands Government propose to address to the other parties to the Prepared Opium Agreement of 1925 regarding the applicability of Article VI, paragraph 2 of that Agreement to the transit through the ports of Singapore and Penang of prepared opium shipped from one part of the Netherlands East Indies to another.
2. Should Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare see no objection, Sir John Simon would be grateful if the draft declaration could now be submitted to the Government of India, with a view to securing with as little delay as possible their concurrence in its terms.
14012/33 [No. 47].
SIR,
(No. 1282.) (F. 5918/1780/87.)
Enclosure in No. 55.
Netherlands Legation,
I am, &c.,
C. W. ORDE.
London, 5th September, 1933. WITH reference to your note of the 22nd July last No. F. 4789/1780/87, and in accordance with instructions received I have the honour to inform you that my Government sees no objection to the modification proposed by His Majesty's Govern- ment of the second sentence of paragraph 2 of the draft included in my note No. 851 of the 23rd June regarding the transit of prepared opium through the ports of Singapore and Penang.
I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the note which my Govern- ment intend to address to the other parties to the Opium Agreement of 1925, trusting that His Majesty's Government will agree to the further modifications which have been made in the wording of the original draft.
India being a party to the Opium Agreement I beg to have recourse to your good offices in order to obtain the approval of the Indian Governinent of the interpretation as set out in the enclosed draft.
The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon, G.C.8.I., K.C.V.O., M.P.,
I have, &c.,
R. DE MARIES VAN SWINDEREN.
(No. 445.)
SIR,
No. 56.
HONG KONG.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 25th September, 1933.)
Government House, Hong Kong, 25th August, 1933. I HAVE the honour to refer to your despatch No. 440 of the 30th November, 1932, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Secretary-General of the League of Nations regarding Recommendation X of the Final Act of the Bangkok Conference.
2. In this Colony all opium smoking is conducted in private, and information regarding its effects is not therefore easy to obtain. Since 1932 certain beds in the Government Civil Hospital have been placed at the disposal of the Physician, Professor Willian Gerrard, O.B.E., M.D., M.R.C.P., for the treatment as in-patients of opium addicts, and I enclose for your information a copy of his report in respect of the period November, 1932, to April, 1933. In addition the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital has set apart 12 beds at their Eastern Branch Hospital for the treatment of addicts on similar lines. A note by the Visiting Medical Officer is attached. No attempt has been made to provide out-patient treatment, which is regarded by medical opinion as useless.
3. I also enclose a copy of a note by Mr. H. A. Taylor, Monopoly Analyst, regarding certain experiments which he has carried out, which may be of interest to the Committee.
4. With reference to the final paragraph of the Secretary-General's letter, the Hong Kong Government will at all times be ready to place its laboratories and the documentary evidence obtained in its hospitals at the disposal of any person or body of persons that may be appointed to conduct further research into the effects of opium- smoking and the possible methods of cure. As you are aware the Hong Kong Monopoly Analyst has already been deputed to assist in certain investigations of this nature during the course of his leave.
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
I have, &c.,
W. PEEL,
Governor, &c.
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