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FORBION OFFICE Bras 17 APR 12 April

1912.

B.5.9631

I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th

instant suggesting the appointment of an informal

inter-Departmental Committee to consider the general

lines of the legislation necessary to give effect to

the provisions of the Hague Opium Convention.

In reply I am to state that Sir E. Grey considers

that the appointment of such a Committee might well be

deferred for the moment. It is highly improbable

that the Hague Opium Convention will be ratified

during the current year. Thirty-four States which

were not represented at the Opium Conference have

been invited to sign the Convention.

If all these

States have not signed the Convention before the end

of 1912, a further Conference is to be summoned to

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The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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