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Telegram from Foreign Office to Sir C.Caithfin|pdde)

dated December 21st 1911.

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Your telegram of December 12th,

You may vote for motion if worded as follows

(en clair) Each of the participating Governments binds

itself to prohibit the importation and exportation of

prepared opium respectively from and to the territories

of the other powers.

(in code) If this wording is not accepted, you may vote

for the motion as originally proposed provided that in

doing so you make a statement in the sense of third

paragraph of Colonial Office letter of December 18th.