Geneva, June 26 The refusal of the United " States {to sign the Opium Convention was Jing to-day of the Opium Conference.
This action, he said, was based on the ground that the Convention con stituted a step backward in the World's anti-narcotic campaign.
Mr. Puller, who was formerly US. Consul-General in China, expressed particular criticism of the articles Jempowering any State to refuse to extradite a drug " traffickers taking' refuge in its territory.
The Convention, he complained, Idid "not deal -with extraterritorial zones, where the drug question was very acute.
All the other delegates, including the British, have signed the Convention—Reuter.
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