The nefarious traffic has, as mentioned ast year, been. transferred. to the far East. China and the Chin-fre European settlements are the places where large factories are being Erected and-where. very." important centres for narcotics trade. tothe fest of the world are coming into Being. In tact there is a sort of Government. monopoly in. Manchot hua and. Jehol to encourage. the Growth of the local product and the frportatton "of Persian opzua, This has been characterized as the largest Single venture ever undertaken the fuci trafic in narcotics me Advisory Commit for Tratfic in Opium has already" called the ftemtion of the Council of the League in @ very strong manner to thin danger. Tr is indeed time something was done to stop these activi tes inthe Far East for. there are Sready distinct signs that trade. relations with Burope are developing A recent capture of drugs showed definite connection. with China the fact that they were wrapped
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from Inia. to the Washington Conference of 1922. The dissolution of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which had certainly preserved a certain stability in international politics in the Far East for twenty years was hardly less a blow to Japanese pride than the general [Sensation that, in the words of Japan's own writers, she was being made to appear as a prisoner at the bar. Subsequent events have convinced her that Western policy towards China was founded more on theoretic than practical benevolence. Her attitude to the West became very much that of the Ten Tribes to Rehoboam. "What portion have in David? To your tents,
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