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Bro2 13 JAN 12

Telegram from Foreign Office to British Delegates to the

International Upium Conference, ho.2 dated January

12th 1912.

Your telegram of January 9th.

Deprecate German amendments if acceptance can be

avoided, as they will greatly diminish utility of Convention.

If, however, acceptance is sole means of arriving at an

agreement you are authorized to accept with reluctance

on condition that the Convention is further amended 30 23

to provide that the obligation to enforce restrictions

shall not take effect until a prescribed date, before which

each Contracting State must notify the recise extent to

which it is able to put the restrictions into effective

operation. Should any Contracting State consider that

the measures proposed by another Contracting state are

inadequate or that the number or importance of non-

adhoring States is so great as to prevent the restrictions imposed by the Convention from attaining their object, it can demand the reassemblage of the Conference in order to

concert measures to meet the situation.