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Sir:-

THE HAGUE.

December 18th,

1911.

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The discussion of Chapter II of the Programme,

dealing with Prepared Opium, was begun by the Interna-

tional Opium Conference in its fixth Plenary Session on

the 12th instant. The first Resolution was one by the

Notherland Delegation simply proposing the prohibition

of all exportation and importation of prepared opium,

but there was also a the paper a whole series of re-

solutions under the various heads of Chapter II put

forward by the American Delegation which were of a less

drastic nature than the Netherlund Resolution, and aimed

at obtaining the maximum amount of control over the

trade short of total prohibition, in case the ideal of

total prohibition should prove to be unrealisable.

Indeed Dr. Hamilton Wright informed the Conference that

in the event of the Netherland Resolution being accept-

ed unanimously, he was prepared to withdraw all the

suggestions put forward by his delegation.

e Right Honourable

The

Sir Edward Gray, Bart., M.P.

&c., ac., &c.,