Geneva, June 8.
The International Opium Conference to-day rejected by 43) against but two votes the Soviet proposal to restrict the vation of opium and coca, the the majority of the delegates declaring that the conference was solely concerned with the restriction of the! chemical production of drugs and! of competent to deal with the] restriction of raw materials The delegates of the colony Powers strongly opposed Russian proposal, while the Chinese state, Dr. Sze, voiced the: Stanapolat thet the restriction of the raw. materials could not be separated from t ion of the chemical production of drugs. Another Chinese delegate, Dr. Wu Lien-teh, expressed the opinion that the restriction of the production of Feroin of which thousands of kilograms were smuggled ani to China where they worked havoc amiens the male popsiation, was most. iniportant. " However, the! question was left in suspense by the conference—Trans-Ocean Kuo Through Reuter.
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