DRUG TRAFFIC.
APPEAL TO .JAPAN. TO AID ENDING IT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (United Service.) (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. A dramatic appeal to Japan to assist tlic ending of the cocaine evil market was made at a meeting of the League Advisory Committee on traffic in opium. The ‘Daily Mail’s” Geneva correspondent says the Indian delegate, Sir John Campbell, after describing the alarming situation created by this illicit import into India, which amounted to more than forty times Oic amount of cocaine required medically. looked fixedly at the Japanese, delegate Sato, and said:—“Most of this comes from the Far East. I beg my honourable colleague to do his utmost to see this ignoble trade is stopped.’ Sato emotionally admitted lie had failed to get the Japanese Government to follow on the lines laid down at the Hague and Geneva conventions and added :-“T. have fought tins scourge for years. If my efforts continue to he negative I shall be obliged to tell my Government T. cannot any longer represent it on this Committee.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 6
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179DRUG TRAFFIC. Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 6
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