London, Oct. 18.
Presiding at a meeting of the East India Association today—at paper on opium in China and India, Lord Meston criticized the "vieari ous righteousness" of some of the Americans who had attended the conference for the suppression opium in India.
Lord Meston emphasized that! India was in no way worthy of blame for the introduction of the drug into China.
Mr. C. M, Mallik declared that] the "millions of tons" of liquor imported into India yearly was more harmfab than opium. He described Great Britain's action in abolishing the opium trade in India as a polit cal move by which the country lost 6,000,000 rupees yearly. The peasant producers of opium, he said, Jost another six to eight millions.
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