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(Commercial Department),

GWYDYR HOUSE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.W.,

19th December 1911.

Sir:-

7.

I am directed by the bard of Trade to state that

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they are informed through the Foreign Office, that a

proposal has been put forward at the Opium Conference

now sitting at the Hague *that the participating Govern-

menta bind themselves to prohibit the importation and

exportation of prepared opium".

I am to explain that the Conference has agreed upon

the following definitions of Raw, Prepared and Medicinal

Opium:-

"Raw Opium: -

"Raw opium is the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the Capsules of the Papaver somniferum, and which has only been submitted to the necessary manipulations for packing and trans- port.

Raw opium includes powdered opium and granulated opium as known to the trade*. "Prepared Opium.

"Prepared opium is the product of raw opium

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