The Archive · 1939

China Repeats Charges Against Japan Deliberate Fostering of Drug Habit Alleged

Geneva, June 9.

When the League of Nation's Opium Commission met today to consider its report to the Council Dr. Victor Hoo, the Chinese delegate. insisted on the insertion of a paragraph recording allegations against the Japanese authorities in the occupied areas in China The allegations, which Dr. Hoo declared were amply corroborated by neutral observers, were effect that the drug habit was deliberately encouraged anong ihe Chinese people so as to in-reuse the revenue amd enfeeble the Chinese 2 to Japan.

wriiovic, the Yugoslav repre-objected strongly, but the majority of members decided it was impossible to refuse the request of a responsible member of the Commission.

M. Gavrilovics attitude was severely criticized by several speakers,—Reuter,

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