on Tanuacy 8, Mr. Paul Stuart Writing in the Daily Graphic"
states:
Today a meeting of the Opium Gommission will be held at Geneva, under the auspices of the League of Nations, when Sir John Jordan, formerly British Minister to China, will be in the chair. The opinion of the League of Nations is that present methods of controlling opium, at its point of sale to the public, have failed to stamp out the evil, and that different Governments must combine to regulate the growth of the opium poppy.
In London, the extent of opium smoking has been greatly exaggerated because of a few sensational cases which have gained transient notoriety. Yet, while the moral dangers of opium have been _exaggerated, they are very real. East of Aldgate there lies an area of which, outside its borders, little is known to the Londoner. Out of curiosity, mi people have visited London's ina town, but Limehouse remains a land of mystery—a foreign country, set im the heart of England's capital.
Before the war Chinatown was a small East End area, but to-day it has spread far outside its pre-war boundaries. The stable population of Chinese in this quarter is 5,000, but the floating population is perhaps four times as great, and much more morocing because it includes all races. It is this floating population, drawn from the lowest elements of the lowest races, which is the real danger of Chinatown.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.