International Reform Bureau's Call for a Convention of Nations Peking, Jan. 12.
The International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, has been informed that the following resolution was adopted at the closing of the Tntermational Reform Bureau Anniversary on December 10, 1922 1 Resolved, that the International Reform Bureau notes with satisfaction the continued earnest enforcement of the Harrison Drug Act and the provisions for the enforcement of the Jones-Miller Import and Export Act, and.
Resolved, that we view with alarm the smuggling of narcotic drugs in the United States to defeat the purposes of these Acts, and.
Resolved, that this grave menace demands that the United States Government should take the initiative in calling a convention of the nations to provide international measures to end this evil by limiting, to the medical requirements of the world, the production of opium and cocaine by, decreasing the growth both of the poppy plant and of cocoa leaves and the manufacture by synthetic processes of the various alkaloids, their salts derivates, components and—substitutes.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.