CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 303

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Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Barbados, Bermuda,

Bahamas, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, British

Honduras, British Guiana and Mauritius.

The adhesion or abstention of Bechuanaland, Swaziland,

Basutoland, Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia, and

perhaps we may say, also of Lauritius, may be regarded as

a matter of small importance from the point of view of the

international control of the trade in opium, morphia and

cocaine, though from the point of view of the universality

of agreement at which we are aiming, it might be advanta-

geous to be in a position to announce the unanimous adhesion

of the British Empire. In regard, however, to the other

colonies mentioned in the list the case is by no means the

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It will be remembered that we have all through the

negotiations laid stress on the necessity of general, if

not universal, co-operation of the civilised nations, if

the contemplated measures for checking the illicit trade

in opium, morphia and cocaine are to be made really

effective. Even leaving out of the question, in the case

of these colonies, the possibility of the establishment in

their