Geneva, June 24.
By 13 votes to one, the International Conference for the Suppression of the Trae in Narcotic Drugs to-day adopted an agreement which will facilitate the application of existing narcotics regulations toward persons enjoying extraterritorial rights in foreign countries, The text of the accord fellows; "The High Contracting Parties, pos~ sessing extraterritorial jurisdiction Within, the territory" of another star member of the (drug) convention, ledge themselves, If the measures latd lown. by the convention cannot be applied by local courts of justice in Instances involving persons in this ter ritory und under their own furisdletlon, to decree the necessary. legislative means by which their extraterritorial courts can prosecute and punish with feast the' same severity with which similar infraction committed. on their own territory would be prosecuted.
"The adoption of this principle will render great assistance to the Chinese government in the anti-drug campaign undertaken by Nanking. Mr. Victor Hoo, Chinese Minister Switzerland and one of the leading members of the conference, declared in a speech after the agreement had been concluded.—Havas.
Canton, June 24. The determination to resist the! entry of Central troops into the Southwestern provinces was express-fed in a statement issued here yesterday by Gen. Li Tsung-jen, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwangs! Fourth Group Army.
With the growing general understanding of the Southwestern programme for national salvation and movement against Japan, the rift between the anti-Japanese and revolutionary groups and the reactionary bodies favouring non-resistance to Japan has become apparent, the statement declared.
"The Nanking Government's ideas! and actions are in direct opposition to ours," the declaration—continued. "More than ten days ago, the Southwestern authorities ordered the ant Japanese troops to retreat, to show that they have no other object save anti-Nipponism. Despite this, Gen. Chiang Kal-shek has taken advantage! of our withdrawal, by despatching a large force towards the Southwestern borders. A military adventure, Jaunched against the Southwest by some ambitious leader, cannot be regarded: by us but as a design to destroy the revolutionary movement."
Should "any cunning leader and those who intend to sell our country to the enemy" attempt to invade the Southwest, Gen. Li promised to mobilize the' revolutionary masses and resolutely punish the invaders Domei.
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