OPIUM SMOKING.
CONFERENCE ENDS. IN A DEADLOCK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT; Received Nov. 18, 1.25 p.in. GENEVA 3 Nov. 17. . Opium Smoking Conference, which ended in a deadlock, whs confined' to members of the league directly concerned, in the question, but the conference dealing with the hianufafcture and sale of narcotics opened today. It includes members • and nonmehibers( of the League. Both the United States and Germany are represented
After tlfe president’s inaugural speech, Mr Stephen Porter, the first American delegate, pointed , out the unfoitunate situation arising out of the deadlock in the first conference. Consequently there was nothing before the second conference. . He said that the American delegation .reserved the right to move, to amend %i e agenda in the event of the first conference not providing effective means for the suppression of the traffic in prepared opium or failing to reach an agreement. The American reservation was noted round the companies of both ships.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 9
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