Anti-Opium Bodies' Urgent Appeal to Geneva The the following to Reuter's Agency for publication:
"Its has frequently been stated that protests against the present use Tndia have not been by representative bodies The recent decisions of ional Assembly and the fol-
Convention at Geneva indicate, how-fever, that India is not tneonjeered:
"The under si and an insidious rapidly 1 poisoning of the human. race, which can be overcome only by ce-operation among all nations, respectfully petition the Interna: tional Opium Conference to adopt measures adequate for the total extirpation of the plants from which they originate, except as found necessary for medicine and science the judgment of the best medi opinion of the world."
The petition was signed bf about.
10 persons representing the societicx over which they presided, on bochalf of 200,000 members belonging. to them, The frst folio bears the names of the following distinguish-
Gandhi, C.F. Andrews, author of several books on Indian affairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.