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FOREICH OFFICEL

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November th301901.]]

As you are doubtless aware, llis lajesty's Government

in replying to the invitation of the United States Govern-

ment to attend a Conference on the Opium question, laid it

down as a condition of their participation that the Confer-

ence should thoroughly and completely deal with the question

of restricting the manufacture, sale and distribution of

morphia and cocaine.

The British delegates are being instructed that this

is a subject to which His Majesty's Covernment attach

sspecial importance, in view of the spread of the morphia

and cocaine habit in India, in China, and in other Eastern

countries, and that as Indian and Chinese experience shows

that legislation against the importation of morphia and

cocaine cannot be made thoroughly effective owing to the

ease with which it can be evaded in practice, it becomes

desirable to secure co-operation on the part of the Govern-

monte concerned in the shape of control over the manufacture

be Under Secretary of State,

Home Office.

and