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Show OPIUM CONFERENCE AT HAGUE CLOSES THE HAOUE. July 10. The international interna-tional opium conference clotted yesterday. In an address the American minister, Lloyd Bryc. dilated on the humanitarian and moral value uf the conference. After expressing- regret for the outbreak of war In the Balkan, he aald: "That It Is confined to one part of Europe Eu-rope la due to the influence spread by the conference at The Hague, the center of international co-operetTon." Tha Dutch minister of foreign affairs said the government would spare no effort to Induce all the nations repreaantad at the last conference to sign the opium convention con-vention before the end of the year. |