CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 445

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evidently issued to comply with the

terms of the resolution passed at the

Second Conference.

This resolution was, as you are

aware, worded as follows:-

"Should the signature of all the

Powers invited in accordance with para-

graph 1 of Article 23 not be obtained

by the 31st December 1913, the Govern-

ment of the Netherlands will immediately

request the Signatory Powers to appoint

Delegates to proceed to The Hague to

examine into the possibility of putting

into effect the International Opium Con-

vention of the 23rd January 1912".

According, however, to Article 24

of the Convention, the Convention

would unless otherwise decided come int

force automatically three months after

a date notified by the Netherland Gov-

errment as being the date on which it

received