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PEKING,
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-OPIUM ASSOCIATION,
28, Erh Tiao Hutung,
The President of the Council
of the League of Nations,
Geneva.
$17,
Peking
Feb. 21 1921.
At the direction of the Executive Committee
of this Association I have forwarded you the following
cablegram.
"The International Anti-Opium Association,
Faking, respectfully requests the Commission dealing with narcotics to demand that the production of opium
in India be lessened to the amount required for
medicinal purposes, and that the Opium Monopolias
at Hong Kong and Singapore, with the monopoly at Macao, which is dependent upon Hong Kong's (monopoly) be abolished. Since the Japanese abolition of the monopolies fat) Kiaochow (and) Kwantung leased territories these (are the) only places (in the) Far East where (the) noxious drug traffic is legalized".
The information at the disposal of this Association proves that as long as large supplies of narcotics far in excess of legitimate medical uses are produced there will continue to be an extensive amug- gling trade, beyond the power of any Bovernment, Governments, to suppress, and in coneequence the evila of the narcotic habit will extend and permeate all countries. The Government of India produces more
or
than any other country, and the evil cannot be radically
dealt
7. s.