§ Dr. CHAPPLEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether any steps have been taken to give effect to Chapter VI., Article 23, of the International Opium Convention by which it is provided that the Netherlands Government shall, in the event of some of the invited Powers not having signed the convention by 31st December, 1912, invite the Powers who have signed to send delegates to the Hague in order to consider the advisability of proceeding to ratification.
§ Sir EDWARD GREYHis Majesty's Government must necessarily await the receipt of the communication from the Netherland Government provided for in the first paragraph of Article 23 of the Convention, which will doubtless shortly reach them. The question of ratification will then be considered.