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SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE OPIUM TRADEL

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RES 3 MAY 12

THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS WERE ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT CAXTON HALL, WESTMINSTER, ON 24th APRIL, 1912, SIR MATTHEW DODSWORTH, BART.,PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.

RESOLUTION NO.1

This Meeting, in adopting the Report of the Executive Com- mittee, would express its deep thankfulness for the peculiar and remarkable progress made during the past twelve months towards a righteous solution of the whole Opium problem:

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by the renewal with important amendments, on the 8th May, 1911, of the Agreement with China for the ending of the Indo-Chinese Opium Trade:

(b) by the signing, on the 23rd January, 1912, of the

Hague Opium Convention, which has recognised the suppression of the trade in Opium and certain other poisonous drugs for non-medical use, as an object of International legislation, and contains many valuable provisions intended to promote this object.

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RESOLUTION NO.2.

This Meeting thanks His Majesty's Government and the Govern- ment of India for their support both in the Agreement, May, 1911, and at the Hague Conference, of China's just claim to protection from the gigantic evils inflicted on her by the Opium Traffic. It thanks the British Delegates at the Conference for their efforts in the cause of reform. ment on the favourable issue of its initiative in summoning the

It congratulates the United States Govern- Conference; and also expresses its warm thanks to the Right Rev. Bishop Brent, President of the Conference, and his colleagues of the United States Delegation.

RESOLUTION NO.3.

This Meeting endorses the accompanying resoltions adopted at this morning's Conference of members and friends of the Society, and directs that copies of the resolutions, signed by the President, be forwarded to each member of the Cabinet, to the Viceroy of India, to the Governors of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, and to the Foreign Secretary of each of the Powers represented at the Hague Conference. That the President and Hon.Secretary be authorised to send a letter to the Chinese Minister giving him such account of to-day's proceedings as they may judge to be expedient.

Marthy, Bremont

Chairman