DRUG MENACE.
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GEN^EVA, Mahch 12. The League Ccninnil discussed the opium and drug traffic. M. Taleski said he was confident the Council would agree to a proposal made by the representative of Britain that it was important to discover how fhe drugs were being obtained in large quantities from some undiscovered source. Appar-
ently enormous quantities of drugs were being exported to China by post, and the Council considered it advisable that the atttention of Governments of Europe should be drawn to this fact. Council decided to empower the Opium Committee to call an international conference to discuss the whole question. Sir Austen Chamberlain said he would be glad if the Chinese Government would send a League Commission to report onthe results of the seizure of opium by the Chinese Customs. '
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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144DRUG MENACE. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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