The League Assembly yesterday Geneve, Oct 1, heard a report on Opium trafic which was presented by BIN. de Vasconeellos, the Portuguese "representative, in the of, the Assembly's Fifth Commission.
The Commission expressed its 'Rreat satisfaction over the fact that the Chinese delegate has announced his Government's willingness to join the 1931 opium convention. China's adhesion to the convention is, therefore, according to the report, now only' a matter of a delay imposed by certain formalities, On the other hand, the report states that the Bangkok agreement on the control of opium smoking in the Far East has been ratified by the United "Kingdom, "France and The report moreover emphasised the "development of clandestine manufacturing of " narcotics certain countries, and notably in China, adding that, even persecuted by control measures, drug sinus have not reduced their activity. bat, the contrary, endeavoured, develop the narcotic trade. The Commission then expressed the hope that the strong repressive measures already put into effect would not fail to produce the desired results.
The report also emphasised the fact that the illicit drug traffic was now cleverly organised om an international plan, therefore requiring new weapons to fight with it. The organisation of narcotic trade.
The Commission farther expressed its serious preoccupation in the reficance."
"The National Day celebration should serve as a reminder to the nation to History shows, that many countries: have recovered from weakness and foreign aggression, and became strong countries, but China ig still weak although she has been ex-plaited by the imperialists for a whole century. people are'
ling aloud for national salva-but so far nothing has been achieved. There must be a reason for this deplorable situation. Unless the "cause is removed, it is impossible to talk about national recovery.
The "Main Facto "China has been kept down by: two main factors, the selfishness and laziness of the people. Because they. are lazy very little progress has been made in industry and reconstruction and we live on supplies pent 0 China from the Powers. Because the people are lazy they do study hard and' enquire fundamentals. For the same re son the nation has not started to build up a strong national defence force. They trust to heaven for everything.
"Because our people are there are many corrupt offic the government who make national treasury build up their private fortunes. Under such d cumstances it is true that China' military equipment is inferior that of the Powers, but that is not beyond remedy. If our authorities would make national affairs their Jown affairs, the country would be much better off. We cannot blame others for oppressing us, we must [blame ourselves for forsaking ourselves. So, unless we do away with these two bad practices, it is impossible to save our country from destruction, port, with the situation created by the installation of secret drag plants jin China, stressing that China should on no account become a mew centre for the clandestine drag traffic—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.