OPIUM AND WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 December 1920, Page 5

OPIUM AND WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

REPORT ADOPTED

CT CABLTJ—I-E.ESS ASSOCIATION—COt'fEiGHf

(Received Dec. 16, 9.5 a.m.)

GENEVA. Dec. 15

The committee presented a report on ■the opium and white slave traffic, and India's claim to representation on labour organisavons as a great industrial "country. The committee recommended acquiescence with the Netherlands desire^&hat the League .should assume the ■duties hitherto carried out by her under the opium convention; also that the signatories to the convention of non-members of the League should be 'invited to appoint assessors on the .League'-e advisory committee, with a ■special' invitation to America.

The committee unanimously recommended that the League should under"take her obligations with respect to the white slave trafnee. but decided •that the assembly is noi' competent to decide India's claim. The Council ■alone was competent to decide as to •which are the principal industrial •powers.

The opium and white slave traffic retports were adopted. The assembly author-sod the secre--tariat to send the questionairo to all 'Governments, asking what legislative measures are being taken to combat the traffic.

An interesting feature of the debate was the- speech in English by Miss Forchhammer, a . Danish delegate, the "first woman to address the assembly. hhe appealed to every Government to legislate for the suppression of a traffic rirnich was a blot on civilisation