THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 15 June 1936, Page 12

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

STUDY OF NUTRITION PROBLEMS SUPPRESSION OP DRUG TRAFFIC (psisa association tilignah.) WELLINGTON, June 13. A wireless, message from the League of Nations from Geneva on June 12, issued by the Prime Minister’s Department, is as follows: The second session of the mixed committee on nutrition appointed by the League Council adopted several recommendations supporting endeavours to secure for populations a suitable supply of necessary foodstuffs, especially protective foodstuffs. The committee asks the assembly to recommend governments to encourage and support in every possible way a scientific study of nutrition problems with a view to ascertaining the optimum nutrition, each country giving due consideration to the differences in national and economic structure, climate, and sources of supply, and also to give full support to health organisations in enquiries into the widespread malnutrition existing in the tropics and certain far eastern countries. A diplomatic conference for examining the draft convention on the suppression of illicit traffic in drugs opened on June 8. The president, M. Limburg (Netherlands) presided over delegates from 42 states. ence proposes to conclude a convention for co-ordinating on an international basis the efforts of individual countries to suppress illicit traffic. The main features of the draft convention are: —Acceptance by governments of an international undertaking to provide severe penalties for serious offences in illicit traffic; the possibilities of extradition from one country to another of a person who has committed serious drug offences; the creation by each country of a central office for supervision; the co-ordination of measures taken for the suppression of illicit traffic: and provisions for close collaboration between the central offices of various countries. The draft convention is now being considered in detail. The Mandates Commission has finished consideration of the report of the French Government on Syria. The commission also studied the United Kingdom’s annual report for 1935 on Palestine. The main subjects discussed were immigration, land tenure, education, autonomous administration, administration of justice, public health, finance, statistics, and social questions. The commission also examined the annual report for 1935 of the mandatory power of South-west Africa, which mentions increased revenue, improved railway receipts, and the growth of production. The Rumanian Government has signed a renewal for five years of the declaration of acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice in conformity with article 36 of the court statute.