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[November 16.J

Rage 1 DEC 10

SECTION 1.

No. 1.

Sir,

Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 16.)

American Embassy, London, November 15, 1909.

I DID not fail to communicate to my Government the substance of your note dated the 3rd instant, in which you enquire whether steps have been taken to obtain the assurance that the other participating Powers in the proposed International Opium Conference were willing that the conference should also deal with the question of restricting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphia, and with the allied question of cocaine, and in reply I have the honour to inform you that I am now in receipt of a telegram from the Secretary of State advising me that the Netherlands Government has notified the Government of the United States that it will issue a supplementary note to the interested Powers embodying the British proposals in regard to morphine and cocaine as contained in your note of the 17th September last.

I have, &c.

WHITELAW REID.

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