Geneva, Nov. 17.
The Opium-smoking Conference, which ended ina deadlock, was confined to members of the League of Nations directly concerned with the question, but the conference dealing with the manufacture and of narcotics which. opened today includes "members and nonmembers of the League. Both the United States and Germany are represented.
After the President's © inaugural speech, Mr. Stephen Porter, the first American delegate, pointed out the unfortunate situation arising from the deadlock at the first eonference as a consequence of which there was nothing before the second conference, He said that the United States reserved the right to. move and amend the agenda in the event of the first conference not providing effective icans for the supres-sion of the traffic in prepared opium or its failing to reach an agreement, The American reservation was noted and the conference, on the proposal of the Japanese Delegation, lected M. Aguerro (Cuba) and Dr. Alfred Sze (China) Vice-Presid-nts,
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