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Board of Trade,

(Copy) C. 6200.

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(Commercial Department),

Gwydyr House,

Whitehall,

London, S.W.

26 JUN 1914

Kuth .we, 1914.

I as directed by the Joard of Trade to acknowledge

the receipt of your letters of the 20 th and 23rd June (Jon, 27587 and 27870), with their onclosures, relative to the International Opium Uvaïerence.

The Board obrarre with raqeet that the ratification of the Convention by Goraany may ba rade dependent on the accurateu aot merely of Austria-Hungary (ʼn matter respecting which they themselves considered sane guarantee desirable) but of hurkoy also. fhould this attitude be maintained, it would indeed appear that there is reason – in view of Bir I. Kallet's dongatoh (llo. 425) of Jwie 8th - to fear that the whole negotiations may prove abortive, so it is (vident that a Convention to Wiich Germany is not a party would nerve no useful purpose and could not properly be given effect to by Hân rajonty's floȚuznant,

I sai to udd that, in the opinion of the soard, the proposal referred to by the British Delogsten in the third paragraph of their donņɛtab, sony of which accompanied your latter of the 2ärd June, that the guzely formal step should be taken of "putting the Conventiou into feree" without

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