il Harmsworth (Under-to the Foreign Office), replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, aid that papers were being prepared for submission to Parliament with re-opium cultivation—in said, undertook to pub down cultivation as a condition of which the export of opium from India was stopped. At that time opium growing in China seemed have been sitistacte suppr regret continued, dicate a marked provinces. There is evidence of the smuggling of Chinese opium into Hongkong on a considerable scale. There is no doubt that it is also snuggled into Shanghai. Strong protests have been repeatedly addressed to the Chinese Go ernment, but they have thus far vemaived entirely unheeded. The League of Nations is now actively interesting itself in this matter, Reuter.
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