DOI:10 IMOH
HAREGOW
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-OPIUM ASSOCIATION, PEKING.
28, Erh Tiao Hutung,
The President of the Council
of the League of Nations,
Geneva.
sir,
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Peking
Feb. 21 1921.
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At the direction of the Executive Committee of this
Association I have forwarded you the following cablegram.
"The International Anti-Opium Association, Peking,
respectfully requests the Commission dealing with narcotice to
demand that the production of opium in india be lessened to the
amount required for medicinal purposes, and that the Opium Monopolies
at Hong Kong and Singapore, with the monopoly at Macao, which i dependent upon Hong Kong's (monopoly) be abolished. Since the Japanese abolition of the monopolies (at) Kinochow (and) Kwantung
leased territories these (are the only places (in the) Far East
where (the) noxious drug traffic is legalized".
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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 smuggling trade, beyond the power of any Government or Governments, to suppress, and in consequence the evils of the
narcotic habit will extend and permeate all countries. Government of India produces more than any other country, and the evil cannot be radically dealt with until the India Goverment considerably reduces the amount produced in India.
The
This Association has been officially informed by the
Japanese Goverment that the Japanese monopolies of opium at Tsing
ta, and in the leased territories of Kuan tung will be abolished
by
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