CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 83

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 31320/13.

and addres

The Under-Secretary of Stato,

Foreign Office,

London.

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Rrat 30 JUL 13

FOREIGN OFFICE

ly 29, 1913.

JULY

Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E.Grey to transmit

herewith to be laid before Mr.Secretary Harcourt,copy

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of a despatch from the British delegates to the recent

International Opium Conference enclosing a draft resolu-

tion drawn up by certain of the delegates, and after-

wards unanimously adopted by the Conference, on the

question of the ratification of the Opium Convention of

1912.

Sir E.Grey proposes, subject to the concurrence of

Mr.Harcourt, that His Majesty's Government should approve

the terms of the resolution.

I am also to transmit herewith, a copy of the in-

structions as finally issued to the British delegates.

Certain slight alterations were made on the recommenda-

tion of Sir W.Collins in the draft enclosed in the

70.

letter from this Department of the 26th ultimo,

but

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there was no time to obtain more than the unofficial

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

concurrence

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