AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. (AIILK ASSOCIATION. THE DOLE TRAFFIC. WASHINGTON, April 24. Representative Porter (chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations) lias sent a. letter to Lord Robert Cecil in which he declined to hold a conversation which Lord Cecil had requested, concerning restrictions on tile drug traffic. Air Porter sent l»rd Cecil a copy of a recent Congressional resolution dealing with drugs. He declared Lord Cecil's assertion that the League has struck vigorous blows at the sale of drugs was wholly without facts to support it. and the League had really encouraged the sale by legitimising this evil. .Mr Porter quoted the Sastri amendment to the Koo rosolutioii aih pled by tile Taiague Oiuneil, outlawing opium-growing in Indiaund thereby vitiating the League’s ostensible purpose to curb the cultivation iif the opium poppy. The letter al-o bitterly attacks Lord Cecil's American tour and points out that the United States, without any thought of levenue, suppresses the drug traffic as far as possible, and it expresses the hope that Britain will do likewise.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 2
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174AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 2
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