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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 45605/11.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State.

Foreign Office,

Immediate.

London.

Sir:-

C O 37265

Forlags OFFICE

Rest 20 NOV

November 10th, 191

164

30.

With reference to your letter 32896 of 17th ultimo,

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you,

for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, copy of a

note from the Netherland Minister enclosing a lemorandum

draw up by the United States Goverment which, in the

absence of a definitive programme, is intended to serve as

the basis of the labours of the forthcoming International

Opium Conference.

I am also to enclose a statement, prepared at this

Office, showing in tabular form the objections and

reservations made by certain Powers to some of the items in

the programme originally suggested by the United States

Government.

Sir E. Grey presumes that it will now be

necessary

to prepare instructions, as definite as possible in the

circumstances, to be issued to the British Representatives

The Under Secretary of State,

at

Colonial Office.