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In continuation of previous correspondence on the

directed by

subject of the Hague Opium Conference, I am

the Secretary of State for India in Council to transmit,

for the information of Sir Edward Grey and for

: communication to the British delegation, a copy of a letter

Wo. 285 dated 23rd with enclosures from the Government of India.

November 1911.

The object of the letter is, as is stated

by the Government of India, to set out the action which

has been taken in India on the recommendations of the

Shanghai Commission, and secondly to urge the imperative

necessity for dealing with an evil the misuse of cocaine

and similar drugs which threatens to become a far

greater danger to India than opium has ever been. The

Government of India fear that these drugs may replace

with far more disastrous results the "opium habit", if the

The Under Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs.

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