At the meeting to-day of the Pith Committee, which is examining the work of the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on Trae in Opium and other Danger-Drugs, the Italian member, dilated on the increase in production of opium drugs, which, he declared, exceeded the evils of opium smoking.
The Japanese delegate welcomed the approaching application of the Geneva Opium Convention of 1925.
The Indian delegate emp: the sacrifices and measures adopted by the Indian Government in the control of opium and expressed a hope that the Convention of 1925 would prove more successful than the Covention of 1912.
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