With a, view to, expediting th work of the Second Opium Confer-one of the sub-committees have hitherto submitted Yeports, Sir Malcolm Delevingne eupgested at this morning's plenary fection that the sub-committees should complete their labours by December 12 in order to enable the Conference to close on Decembe' 20, the proposal provoked lengthy. discussion, at the end of wwhich''the subject" of fixing dates was adjourned until December the course of the ses American proposal that the Confer} tence should juin the United States in Highting the ase of hevoi referred to the Medical Comm Better Outlook for an Barly Termination Geneva, Dee. 10.
With the its termination by December 20 are more hopeful.
An agreement was reached toa lay ton the important question of ime orbs, exports and sea and land transit and transhipment. ther hand no agreement has hitherto been résched respecting the establishment of a central board of control for the nrnufacture of Moscow, Dec. 9.—M. Joffe has been appointed Soviet Minister t> Vienna,—Reuter.
Deunt, Dec. 8.—A criticism that the crowd should have been fired upon was not endorsed by the Gov-! V ernment of India ina. resolution dealing at length with the Hindu Mostom disturbances at Kohat last September.@ The resolution commends the action of the local authorities, pointing out that at no stage ould firing have been profitable cuter,
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