OPIUM TRAFFIC.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18303, 10 February 1925, Page 9

OPIUM TRAFFIC.

PROBLEM OF SUPPRESSION. (St CASUS —FREBS ASSOCIATION —COPtBIOHTj (BEOTEII's TKLKOEAIO.) GENEVA, February 8. It has been decided that the OpiUin Conference should continue without the American and Chinese delegations. At a plenary sitting of the conference, M. Toivola (Finland), in submitting tho report of the committee on the American proposals and the AngloFrench statements in regard to the gradual suppression of opium smoking within a stipulated tune, said that any failure to reach an agreement wae more apparent than Yeal. The speeches of the British, French, and I>utch delegates had clearly showed that their Governments were ready to suppress the use of opium. It had been agreed that the League of Nations should fix the date from which the'period of fifteen years should run and, if the producing countries adopted a similar attitude, the opium problem could be solved very soon. Dr. Sze. in a letter notifying the withdrawal of China, gave an assurance that the Government of China would exert all its power to enforce the policy of prohibiting the production of opium for other than medicinal and scientific purposes.