OPIUM CONFERENCE.
GENEVA, Feb. 8. It lias been decided that the Opium Conference will continue without the American and Chinese delegations.—A. and N.Z. cable. GENEVA, Feb. S. At a plenary sitting of the Opium Conference M. Toivola (Finland), in submitting the report of the committee on the American proposals and the Anglo-French statements in regard to the gradual suppression of opium smoking within a stipulated time, said the failure to reach agreement was more apparent than real. The speeches of the British, French and Dutch delegates clenrly showed that their Governments were ready to suppress the use of opium. It was agreed that the League of Nations should fix a date from which a jieriod of 15 years should run. If the producing countries adopted a similar attitude the opium problem could he solved very soon. Dr. Sze, in a letter notifying the withdrawal of China, gave an assurance that the Government of China would exert all its powers to enforce a policy prohibiting the production of opium for other than medicinal and scientific purposes.-—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 60, 10 February 1925, Page 5
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