§ 2. Dr. CHAPPLEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give the names of those Powers which have now signed the International Opium Con vention of 1912, and of those Powers which have been invited to sign but which have not yet done so?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Edward Grey)The Powers whose plenipotentiaries originally signed the Convention are stated on page 19 of Parliamentary Paper, Miscellaneous No. 2, 1912. His Majesty's Minister at The Hague also signed the Convention on the 17th of last December on behalf of Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and twenty-five British Colonies, Dependencies and Protectorates. The Convention, according to the latest advices received by His Majesty's Government from The Hague has also been signed by fifteen of the States mentioned in Article 22. His Majesty's Government expect shortly to learn from the Nether-land Government how many, if any of the balance of eighteen have signed the instrument down to the end of December last?