From Oun wy Comessowoext London, June 4.
"master mind" is behind the! narcotics traffic, and it usually dirfects operations' from a country re~ mote from where the trafic is taking Fines for opium-smoking should not be employed to meet military expenses. but for purposes of educating the people against the opium evil oF for the curing of opium addicts. place.
This fact ie specially mentioned in convention, adopted at Geneva today by the League Advisory Com-' mittee at the conclusion of its se3- sion, praying all governments for special anti-drug legislation.
"There is evidence, it adds, of a progressive decline in' the legitimate trade, but the continual growth of Mlleit trade and clandestine manu facture is increasingly dificult to suppress.
Sir Malcolm Delevinge, the British Gelogate, pointed out that, owing to! decline in the demand, conside: able stocks" were accumulating manufacturing countries, and prices had been slashed to stimulate cagerness to find new markets.
Persia, he declared, where stocks the commencement of 1934 amounted to 7,000 cases, was now concentrating on Europe and America through a new government-controlled company, which has been given a monopoly for the export of drugs.
Turkey and Yugo-Slavia, Sir Malccolm added, were giving special attention to the Far East, while Hungary had discovered anew process of extracting morphine from poppy.
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