On the basis of the brief cabled mary it, is perhaps unwise to say definite opinions in regard to:
atest report on the opium: traffic.. From the prominence given to Dr, Wellington Koo's criticism alleged developments in Manchoukuo {it would seem to the observer at this distance that the committee has been given a lopsided view of the situa-tien. Whatever may be the prevalence of opium-smuggling Manchoukuo ox of official recognition of the traffic it is fairly safe to say That no new conditions have been imported into that situation. Johol's connection with opium has long been notorious. It would have been more in Keeping with the actual facts the traffic in China if the committee could have' been given some sort fof agrurance that an opium policy of being "attuned 0. the the various provincial had boon adopted by the Government for whom Dr. Welling ton Koo stood up to speak, Study of the information regularly made available to readers of this journal makes it abundantly clour that the solution of the gpiim, problem can Dest be found within the confines of that China "which is stil-under the nominal control of the Gover Ae Nanking. So Tong as pro Hike Szechuien depend for revenue on opium trafic it is really fuperfiuous to ask the committee at Geneva to waste much of ts value time in contemplating the iniquities
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.