The Archive · 1930

Drug Traffic in

FAR EAST

Geneva, Feb. 4.

At a meeting of the Opium Commission to-day, Sir Malcolm Dele (Britain) alluded to the ever} growing use of drugs in the Far East. He said that a large part of them was of Japanese origin.

Mr. Campbell (India) "declared that 'a great quantity. of cocaine was brought into India from the Far East, where the only producing country was Japan.

Mr. Ito (Japan) expatiated on the actions of the Japanese Government in the face of. great practical ditficulties in order to check the illicit traffic. He said that those efforts would be vigorously followed up.

Mr. Woo Kai-song appealed again fon behalf of China for the restriction of the manufacture of narcotics to medical and scientific requirements. He demanded the publication of all information regarding the illicit traffic in the hands of the Governments represented—Reuter.

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

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