The Archive · 1930

CHINA AND OPIUM 'TRAFFIC

Delegate's Appeal to Europe for Assistance Geneva, Jan. 21

The Opium Commission of the League of Nations. to-day began examination of the annual reports Of the respective governments on the Situation in bogart to the production of harmful drugs.

Tu. the course of a speech, the Chinese delegate, Mr. Woo Kai-song. described th of a national Chin. carry out prohibition of the sale of opium and the forts of the Chinese "Government in opposing the distribution of narcotics. Mr. Woo led for the collaboration of Europe in this task.

The principal suggestion contained the Chinese report, which will be examined when the " Commission begins to discuss the general situation in the Far East, is the request to the League to establish an international narcotics factory at Geneva, to be directly aiministeved by the League, which will supply the whole World with the marcaties necessary Sur legitimate purposes The French delegate submitted note explaining the general pri Giples: which might serve as a basis for a general convention aiming the limitation and apportionment of the production of narcotics—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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