CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 250

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

OPIUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[5857)

No. 1.

[February 7.]

SECTION 1.

Señor de Villa Urrutia to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received February 7.)

(Translation.) Your Excellency,

Spanish Embassy, London, February 4, 1913. UNDER instructions from my Government, I have the honour to inform you as follows:-

In accordance with the cour contained in the final protocol of the International Opium Conference, held at The Hague from the 1st December, 1911, to the 23rd January, 1912, to the effect that the attention of the International Postal Union should be called to the necessity of regulating the dispatch by post of opium, morphine, and cocaine, instructions have been given both to the Central Postal and Telegraph Administration, and to the other postal authorities concerned, to look into the matter and to take action in accordance with the views expressed at the Inter- national Opium Conference.

I have, &c.

VILLA URRUTIA,

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