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DRUG EVIL.
1
How The Far East Is Supplied.
"ALMOST INCREDIBLE" TRAFFIC.
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London, March 18,
LEAGUE AND SÄAR. FAR EASTERN TRIP.
"
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY FLEASED.
* SIX FLYING "BOATS TO
PARTICIPATE.
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London, March 19. Sir Austen and Lady Chamber-
The free port of Copenhagen, in have arrived in London
March
London, March 18. Six flying boats, each fitted says the League repers, cauges con from Geneva. Interviewed by with 450-horse-power engines, siderable anxiety, in as much as it Router. Si Austen Chamberlain will participate in the Far By extensively used for the left said he was very pleased with despatch of drugs from European the work of the enlarged Council Eastern flight. mentioned on countries. Copenhagen is also of the beague.-Reuter"
The flying boats, which will used as a convenient transhipmen Centre. The Longue Secretariat haa The Press is not enthusiastic follow the sea route, will ultim-
the been instructed to approach
with regard to the Saar decision.ately remain at Singapore as Danish Government.
The report reverts that the Ger-regarding which the extreme mag police recently, discovered the Nationalist journals existence of an international band criticise Dr. Stresemann, {of smugglers carrying on the traffic
"to ar
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Berlin, March 18,
sharply the nucleus of an air feet, work-
ing in conjunction with the Aus- The "Deutsche Zeitung" "de-tralian air force.-Reiter. most incredible extent."mands that Germany quit the The orders for drugs mostly League and Dr. Stresemana re- emanated from the Far East. The sign-Reuter. operations were conducted chiefly
through Copenhagen.
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How It Was Done.
Rugby, March 18. Interviewed in Paris, while
police is hoped to shed much light returning from Geneva to Lon- Jon the methods of the contraband! dealers, also the sources of supply.
to ensure
don, Sir Austen Chamberlain
NOTICE.
NICHOLSON
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The Council wippted a resolution expressed delight at the excellent moved by Sir Malcolm de Levingne work accomplished by the League, (British delegate) requesting the Council meeting particularly the committee to investigate, the mea solution of the 'Saar question, sures taken or that can be taken by At the last sitting of the Coun- the governments of countries engageil yesterday, when their differ- ed in the manufacture and distri-ing views had been stated by Dr. bution of drugs to keep a check on Stresemann and M. Briand, the A
NAKE NOTICE that it has come the "to the knowledge of the disposal of drugs that they are supplied only to an-British Foreign Secretary and M. thorised persons
Van der Velde intervened with NICOLSON FILE COMPANY, of Sir Malcolm de Levingne stated conciliatory speeches, and a com- United States America the Proprie thas there was little formation re- promise was reached to attain tors of the above Trade-mark, that les have been sold in Hong Kong. garding the source of drugs and he which both the French and Gerbearing a similar mark manufac urged that investigation begin with the manufacturer or the large imman Ministers conceded points. tured by firms
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porter, and proceed; step by step
on the question of opium and other noxious drugs.
British Wireless
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RADIO TELEGRAMS may now be accepted for Kongmoon under preciate the proposal made by the ed, this being sufficient to make
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The Opium Convention of Feb ruary, 1925, cannot come into fores until seven States represented on the Council have ratified it. Great Britain was the first member of the Council to ratify the Convention and now Germany has done so.
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་ ད Large seizures of opium and drugs have been mado in the Far 3.30 p.m. East, the Middle East and the 4.80 p.m. United States. The outflow of 4.30 p.m. opium from China very seriously
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ief of Cairo police reported that the Egyptians are rapidly becomi ∙ing a race of drug midicts. Sixty arrests are made weekly in Cairo. Reuter.
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