In the final sitting of the opium sub-committee to-day the Indian delegation submitted a statement for embodiment in the report to the effect that if it was intended later to modify the conclusions of the sub-committee and to recommend to the conference the insertion of the American proposals, which were not modified in the convention, then the Indian delegation would require the insertion of an additional Paragraph in order to secure the administrative and constitutional position in India.
The wording of the addition would ibo somewhat as follows:—"The right is expressly reserved by the Government and the Provincial Governments of India to control as heretofore the production and distribution of raw opium within the territories in accordance with the visions of the Hague conven-ion, provided always that no surplus is available for export save under the conditions expressly provided in the present arrangement."
Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.