'A meeting of the League of, Nations Advisory Committee Opium Traffic, at Geneva, dealing with the programme of the World; Conference on Drug Control, which will be held in November, considered five schemes submitted by Great Britain, the United States, France,!
Council respectively.
Finally, Holland acquiesced in the agreement reached between Great! Britain and the United States, after which the other countries concurred, but the French representative declined to accept the scheme as a draft agreement, reserving the right to oppose it when it comes before the League Assembly shortly.
The scheme contains two main points which America considers essential: (1) that each country shall state its medicinal and scienti fie requirements in opium, and (2) restriction of production within the limits of these requirements and the! establishment of a central board to apply this principle throughout opium-producing and consuming countries.
Sir John Jordan, on behalf of i Britain, submitted' the suggestion that the quantity of Indian opium exported to States regulating opium smoking should be reduced by 10 per cent. a year for 10 years, and that the Governments of Japan and Si and of Powers with possessions in the Far East should be requested to reduce their consumption of opium at the same rate; but the suggestion was opposed by Mr. Campbell on behalf of India, and so it will not. appear as a resolution—Reuter.
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