WAR AGAINST OPIUM.
j STRONGER STEPS URGED. | j - 1 1 NEW YORK BISHOP'S PROTEST. ) I i GENEVA. Dec. 7. '.j Dr. C. H. Brent, Bishop of Western . I New York, who was a member of the > ] Philippine Opium Commission in 1903-4, ' and president of the International I Opium Conference at The Haguo in 1911- ) j 12, and who is a delegate to the forthcoming International Opium Conference, I protests against the ineffectiveness of the | proposed convention This convention is intended to suppress opium-smoking in the I Par East, and was drawn up at the previ- • I ous conference, at which .America was not I represented. i Dr. Brent demands that delegates, ini j stead of signing tho convention, should j draw up a more comprehensive document. ' i —-=-——-—====
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 11
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