CHINA AND OPIUM
QUANTITIES SENT BY POST
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) GENEVA, 12th March. The League. Council discussed the opium and drug traffic.
M. Zaleski said that he was confident the (jouncil would agree to the proposal made by the representative of Britain, that it was important to discover the sources of supply open to illicit traffickers. It was evident that drugs were being obtained in large quantities from some undiscovered source. Apparently enormous quantities of drugs were being exported to China by post, and the Council considered it advisable that the attention of the Governments of Europe should be drawn to this fact.
The Council decided to empower > the Opium Committee to call an international conference to discuss the whole question.
Sir Austen Chamberlain said that ho would bo glad if the Chinese Government would send the League the Commission's report on the results of the seizure of opium by the Chinese Customs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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153CHINA AND OPIUM Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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