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BOARD OF TRADE.

6/1912. Immediate.

(566).

(Commercial Department 12 JAN 12.

GWYDYR HOUSE. WHITEHALL.

LONDON, S.W.,

3rd. January, 1912.

Sir:-

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the

receipt of your letter of December 30th, transmitting prints

of the proposed Convention and other documents drafted at the

International Opium Conference, with a view to regulating

the trade in Opium, its derivatives, and other habit forming

drugs.

The Board observe that the proposals for regulating the

trade in morphia, cocaine, etc. do not include any provision

such as that suggested at the informal Conference which was

held at the Foreign Office prior to the departure of the

British Delegates for the Hague, with regard to exports to

countries not adhering to the proposed Convention.

Should

the Convention become operative, and should certain trading

countries fail to adhere to it, there would apparently be no

restriction

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.