CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 572

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Inst uctions to the British Delegates at

the Second International

pium Conference.

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

Gentlemen:

June 1913.

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IRFJ:26 JUN 13

You have already been informed

that His Majesty's Government have select-

ed you to be the British Delegates at the.

International Conference which is to meet

at The Hague on the 1st July to consider

the question of the ratification of the

International Opium Convention of January

1912.

You will doubtless remember

with what difficulties you were confronted

at the former Conference owing to the

fact that, the Powers represented being

limited in number to twelve, they were

not alone competent to carry out the full

extent of international co-operation con-

templated by the convention, and owing to

the danger also that the participating

Powers might eventually find that they

had unavailingly sacrificed their trade

interests