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HAGUE,

January 13th, 1912.

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In continuation of our telegram of the 11th in-

stant on the subject of the procedure in rogard to the

ratification of and adhesion to the Convention to be

framed by the Opium Conference, we have the honour to

report that the matter has been under consideration by

a Select Committee of the Conference (Comité de Rédac-

tion) of which 3ir William Collins is a member. That

Committee has, without thereby compromising in any way

the freedom of action of the Delegations to which its

members belong, prepared a preliminary draft in respect

of which it has boon materially assisted by the sug-

gestiona of their Excellencies Monsieur van Swinderen,

Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Monsiour Asser, the

eminent international jurist, and this draft after fur-

ther consideration by the Committee, is to be put before

the Conference as a whole. We enclose two coples of the

draft in which we have numbered the paragraphs for con-

vendonce of reference. The first contains the draft as

it

Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.

*c., &c., &c.,