Received Thursday, 8.25 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 6. In its first postwar report, the Permanent Central Opium Board says the alarming increase in the use of heroin constitutes a grave yroolem, states the Daily, Telegraph 's Geneva cprrespondent. Despite the warning issued. in 1931, 12 of 22 countries which are the heaviest users oi the drug, ,ha.ve in1 creased their consumption since. 1936.' ' * ^ Among the worst offenders are New Zealand and Australia.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1949, Page 5
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