Tokyo, Mar. 27. Radio service between here and [Tientsin, with the monthly capacity Jot 5,000 messages, will open on April Invitations have been issued to Nanking, Shanghai, Hangchow, Tsinj tao municipalities' and Kiangsi, Fu kien, Anhwei, Hunan, Hupeh, Honan,' Shensi, Shantung, Chekiang and Hopel provinces, requesting them to send delegates 10 the convention—Central News.
Geneva, Mar. 28, 'The present system of fighting the iMlieit drug traMe has broken down entirely, according to a report made to-day on the work of the League of Nations' Permanent Central Opium Board by Mr. L. A. Lyall, the president, who is a retired Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs, Mr. Lyall bases his contention on comparison between the infinitesimal seizures of drugs in North America and the total number of drug addicts in the United Slates and Canada, officially stated to be 120,000 and 8,000, He points out that drug addicts are not confined to these two countries, and declares it is an inevitable conclusion that clandestine factories Producing many tons of drugs annually exist somewhere, He admits that smuggling cannot be stopped without measures calculated to choke legitimate trade, There are suMfcient stocks of opium in the Netherlands Bast Indies to Jast 46 years, he states, and the Nether. Jands Government has been urged to diminish this quantity as soon as Possible, Mr. Lyall draws attention to a recent declaration by Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Executive Yuan of the Nanking Government, that the Chinese authorities have a measure of responsibility for checking opium smoking among Chinese outside of China, and points out that, if stocks continue to exist, it will dificult for proper collaboration between China and those countries where Chinese workmen smoke opium.—Reuter,
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