Appeal to the Nation and the League Nanking, Feb, 16.
The General Association of Opium Suppression Commissions issue a clrular message to the nation, yesterday, exhorting the people to refrain. from further consumption of opium. 'A joint meeting of representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Industry, the Overseas Affairs Commission, and the National Health. Administration also was convened by the General Association, and the fol-Iowing measures for combatting the, opium evil among overseas Chinese were adopted:
L.A report on tke work of opium-suppression in China is to be com piled by the General Association of Opium Suppression Commissions, and submitted to the League of Nations, 50 as to Indicate the determination of the Chinese Government to extirpate the opium evil, and to enlist tke ssu port of the various member-Slates of the League to assist in the suppress sion of the opium evil among Chinese residents abroad.
The various Chinese legations and embassies abroad are to be structed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to report on the number of Chinese opium addicts in various countries, and the measures regulate ug the sale of opium in such coun-
'3.—The overseas opium addicts are {to be urged by the Overseas Affairs [Commission, through the various [Chinese Overseas Associations, to [break the reprehensible habit through medical aid.
4—Curatives are to be distributed among the smokers by the National Health Administration. report on the opium evil Jamong overseas Chinese labourers be submitted to the League of Nations through Dr. Victor 100, [Minister to Switzerland and delegate {to the League. The various member States of the League are to be requested to assist in the suppression the evil mong the workers Kuo
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