London, Feb. 13.
Viscount Cecil, peaking—at! Bournemouth to-day for the first time since his return from Geneva, said that, broadly speaking, he thought that the Opium Conference delegates might congratulate themselves on the very successful issue of their labours.
He said that the Conference had decided that as the eating of opium was confined to India it was hardly an international matter and was tone to be dealt with by the Indian Viscount Cecil stated that deeply regretted the American with drawal from the Conference, which, however, seemed to him to be based on altogether insufficient zround. At the same time there had been bitterness or heart-burning in action—Reuter.
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