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Conference, although in view of the con-

tents of these Resolutions there is some

doubt whether there is much scope for in-

ternational action, and whether the ground

for fruitful discussion has as yet been

cleared by the completion in each country

of the detailed enquiries and measures of

reform which the Commission recommended.

In particular His Majesty's Government de-

sire to be assured that if they partici-

pate in a Conference, the other participat-

ing Powers are willing that the Conference

should thoroughly and completely deal with

the question of restricting the manufac-

ture, sale and distribution of morphia,

which forms the subject of the fifth Reso-

lution of the Shanghai Commission;

also with the allied question of cocaine.

and

In India, in China, and in other Eastern

countries the importation of morphia and

cocaine from occidental countries, and the

spread of morphia and the cocaine habit,

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