London, Jan. 30.
Commenting on the Opium Conferences, "The Times" expresses the opinion that too much opium is still being exported to Hongkong, Macao, Japan and elsewhere. Tt says that the Government of the Straits Settlements could in the Tong run hardly lose from the point of view of revenue if it set its face more resolutely against the traffic, but until China puts her house in order it will be difficult to make much progress elsewhere.
As regards India "The Times" says that if every State made control as efficient as India did the evil would soon be reduced to manageable proportions.
In conclusion "The Times" says that the difficulty of the League of Nations is that international action is at present impossible in practice and that at least for the moment the British principle of local re-Jsponsibility is the only sound one—Reuter.
Patriarch Expelled by Turks:
Refusal of Arbitration:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.