Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 511.4A1/1460.

The Minister of the Netherlands to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

No. 2324.]

Legation of the Netherlands,
Washington, April 27, 1914.

Mr. Secretary of State: In continuation of my note No. 1740 of January 27 last and forwarding to your excellency herewith 4 copies of a list giving the names of the Powers that have signed the Opium Convention, I have the honor to inform you that the Convention has been signed:

1. By Great Britain for the Leeward Islands January 30, 1914; for British Guiana and British Honduras February 11, 1914; for the Government of the South African Union March 11, 1914; for Zanzibar, North Rhodesia, and North Basutoland, the protectorate of Bechuanaland and Swasiland March 28, 1914; for the colony of Barbados April 4, 1914; and for Mauritius and its dependencies April 8, 1914.

2. By Bulgaria, March 2, 1914.

3. By Uruguay, March 9, 1914.

The Convention has been ratified by China. I embrace this opportunity to renew [etc.]

W. L. F. C. de Rappard

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