§ Sir WILLIAM COLLINSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office are aware that since the issue of White Paper, No. 4 (1915), Cd. 7813, the following Powers have, in addition to Great Britain and the eleven Powers mentioned in the Paper, ratified the Opium Convention of 1912, namely, the Netherlands, Norway, Brazil, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Uruguay; and whether the United States, China, the Netherlands, Norway, and Honduras have also signed the special Protocol opened at The Hague in July, 1914, with a view to putting the Convention into force without waiting for ratification of the Convention by all the signatory Powers?
§ Lord ROBERT CECILI am taking steps to ascertain what is the precise position, and will communicate to the hon. Member in due course the information which I obtain.