CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 219

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participation that the Conference should

217 thoroughly and completely deal with the question of restricting the manufacture,

sale and distribution of morphia and

cocaine. This indeed is a subject to

which His Majesty's Covermont attach especial importance, in view of the spread

of the morphia and cocaine habit in India,

in China and in other Eastern countries.

Indian and Chinese experience shows that

legialation rgainst the importation of

morphia and cocaine must fail to be

thoroughly effective owing to the ease with

which it can be evaded in practice, and

consequently suggests the desirability of co-operation on the part of the Home and

Foreign Governments in the shape of control

over manufacturs and distribution.

You

will therefore use your best efforts to

secure the assistance of the Governments re-

presented at the Conference towards obtain-

ing this end.

His