Geneva, June 17.
A resolution convoking a conference which will examine the possibility of limiting and controlling the culture of the opium poppy throughout the world, was adopted today by the League of Nations' Advisory Committee on Opium.
The Committee states the world's production of the drug is at present much more than known needs and it advocates a convention according to which the "consumer states" would estimate each year their needs. pledging themselves to buy only sufficient quantities to satisfy these and spreading out their purchases over all markets, Furthermore, the convention would also call for the "producer states not to sow more ground with the opium poppy than enough to yield a crop which would satisfy the consumer states.
Recently, the local Opium Committee has been much in the world's eye as it went into action over the excess of opium in China Manchoukuo today. The American delegate, at a recent meeting. officially charged Japan with propagating the drug traffic North China, and since then busy meetings have been held in attempts to find s of curbing the deadly trade.
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