Mr. R.A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply, gave the House information derived "by. the: Government from various parts of the Far East One very serious feature of the growth of the traffic, he declared, was the growth of the use of heroin, "which is far more serious than the use of oplum—itselt a terrible, griping vice."
After referring to the steps now being taken by the British ese authorities in mutually" communteating information regarding the [proceedings and movements of persons known to be engaged in the illicit drug trae, Mr. Butler said that, al-{though it might not give an immediate solution to the grave problem, it at feast meant that "we are in' closer touch with the representatives of Japan, and that thus we are able to illustrate the gravity which we attach the matter
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