Annual Report to the League of Nations Published London, July 16.
The annual report of the British Government to the League of Nations in regard to traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs in 1927 shows that no information was ceived that any firm in Great tain had engaged in the smuggling of drugs and that no seizures of drugs of British manufacture were reported during the year.
In addition to drug seizures made in Great Britain, many seizures were reported from India, Rangoon, Singapore and Hongkong. The British Government communicated the information with regard to these seizures and other information in regard to illicit traffic to the League and also to any Governments whose territories appeared to be concerned in any illicit transaction discovered.
The report says that much vrluable information was also received from other Governments under the arrangements for direct interchange of information, Tt mentions that two important seizures of cocaine have already been made in London this firstly, cocaine of Japanese facture smuggled by a Lascar on a vessel from the Far East, and, secondly, cocaine of German manufacture exported from Germany 'a firm in Lithuania, whence it was smuggled by a Lithuanian residing in London—Reuter,
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