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“ III. Utters the wish that in case the signature of all the powers invited by virtue of paragraph 1 of article 23 shall not have been secured by the 31st of December, 1913, the Government of the Netherlands will immediately invite the signatory powers on that date to designate delegates to take up the question whether it is possible to put the International Opium Convention of January 23, 1912, into operation. ”

“ Besides we can not refrain from remarking that the difficulties foreseen by Austria-Hungary, Norway, and Sweden with respect to their legislation were not unknown to the delegates of the signatory powers and were subjected to thorough consideration on the part of the twelve contracting powers. ”

“ Desirous of following up in the path opened by the international commission of Shanghai of 1909 [9] and the first conference of 1912 at The Hague, the progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine, as well as of drugs prepared with or derived from those substances, and deeming it more than ever necessary and mutually advantageous to have an international agreement on that point, the Second International Conference—
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“ Federico Gamboa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.
The Netherlands:
Mr. J. T. Cremer, former Minister for the Colonies, former president of the Netherlands Society of Commerce, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, first delegate; Dr. C. Th. van Deventer, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, delegate; Mr. A. A. de Jongh, former inspector-general, head of the opium monopoly in the Dutch Indies, delegate; Dr. J. G. Scheurer, Member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, delegate. ”

“ Final Protocol of the International Opium Conference
The International Opium Conference, proposed by the Government of the United States of America and convoked by the Government of the Netherlands, assembled at The Hague in the Palace of the Knights, December 1, 1911.
The Governments, the enumeration of which follows, have taken part in the Conference, to which they had designated the Delegates hereafter named:
Germany:
His Excellency Mr. Felix von Müller, Privy Counsellor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, First Delegate Plenipotentiary; Mr. ”