COCAINE EVIL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 30, 22 January 1929, Page 5

COCAINE EVIL

DRAMATIC APPEAL TO JAPAN TO END ILLICIT TRAFFIC. BARON SATO’S EMOTIONAL OUTBURST. (United Preaa Association—By Cable— Copyright.) [United Service.], (Received 22, 8.30 a.m.) London, Jan. 21. A dramatic appeal to Japan to assist in ending the cocaine evil marked the meeting of the League of Nations’ advisory committee on the traffic in opium. The “Daily Mail’s” Geneva correspondent says that the Indian delegate, Sir John Campbell, alter describing the alarming situation created by illicit import into India, which amounted to more than 40 times the amount of cocaine required medically, looked fixedly at tfie Japanese delegate, Baron Sato, and said: “Most of this comes from the Far East. I beg niy honourable colleague to do his utmost to see that this ignoble trade is stopped.” Baron Sato speaking with emotion, admitted his failure to get the Japanese Government to follow the lined laid down at The Hague and Geneva conventions, and added: “I have fought this scourge for years. If my efforts continue to be negative I shall he obliged to tell my Government that I cannot any longer represent it on this committee.”