CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 20

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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#16 FEF 12 [January 12.]

SECTION 3.

[1713]

(No. 2.)

[AMENDED COPY.]

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir A. Johnstone, The Hague.

(Telegraphic.) R.

FOLLOWING for British delegates :-

Your telegram of 9th January.

Foreign Office, January 12, 1912.

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 authorised to accept, with reluctance, on condition that the convention is further amended so as to provide that the obligation to enforce restrictions shall not take effect until a prescribed date, before which each contracting State must notify the precise 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-adhering 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.

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