CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 179

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which are now being placed in India and China on the

production and use of opium become more stringent,

suggested that the powers participating in the Con-

ference should definitely consider beforehand the

question whether they would be prepared to make a

statistical study of the manufacture and trade in

morphine and cocaine and agree to impose severe

restrictions on such manufacture of, and trade in the

Further, the

drugs in their respective territories.

British Government has stated that they take exception

to those items of the tentative programme numbered (h),

(1), (m), and (n); and that they will not be prepared

to discuss in the Conference,

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1st, the arrangement

made between His Majesty's Government and China

respecting the progressive restriction of opium imports

and of opium production in China (1.e. the so-called

ten year agreement), 2nd. other existing treaties be-

tween the two countries. It may be stated that all of

the participating Governments have accepted the

proposals of the British Government in regard to

morphine and cocaine.

The Chinese Government has suggested in regard to

item