OPIUM TRAFFIC
GENEVA SENSATION
CHARGE AGAINST JAPAN ENCOURAGING PRODUCTION MONOPOLY IN MANCHUKUO By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 3, 8.35 p.m.) GENEVA, Nov. 3 An American delegate, Mr. Fuller, caused a, sensation at a meeting of thcAdvisory Commission on Opium and the Drug Traffic by asserting that Japan is encouraging the production of opium in Manchukuo, where a monopoly has been established. Mr. Fuller stated that airmen were employed to drop pamphlets urging the cultivation of the poppy. The new Manchukuo coins, he observed, have the opium poppy engraved on them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 11
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90OPIUM TRAFFIC New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 11
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