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TOPIUM CONFERENCE.

ATMOSPHERE AGAIN RUFFLED.

Alfred Sze" AS INSTIGATOR.

DILEVIGNE'S TELLING HIT.

(Reuter's Service.)

GENEVA, November 6, The atmosphere at the Opium Conference was against ruffled to-day as the result of Dr. Alfred Sze's criticisms of other States with regard to the. restriction of poppy-growing.

STRONG PORTUGUESE PROTEST... The Portuguese delegate strongly protested again Dr. Sze's remarks in regard to the Porta- guese authorities' treatment of the question.

He declared Portugal required advice from nowbere. Portugal, he added, was acting in the interests of Humanity and in the letter and spirit of The Hague "Convention:

"FRENCH RESENT REMARKS. The French delegate, M. Chinchant, resented Sze's assertion that the smuggling of opium into Indo-China showed the incompetence of the French authorities to prevent armed bands of smugglers entering their territory,

MChinchant said he could-not-accept the criticism of any Power much less that of China, whose Government possessed only normal authority in certain parts of the country.

It was extraordinary, that the representative, of a country producing 15,000 tons of opium annually, should reproach Indo-China where poppy-growing was strictly prohibited.

WHAT CHINA "DESIRES.", Dr Sze declared that China desired to restrict poppy-growing: he hoped neighbouring States would second her efforts.

TO APPOINT COMMITTEE The Conference, by a majority, agreed to Sir Malcolm Delevigne's proposal to appoint a com mittee, of representatives from France, Britain, the Netherlands and Japan, to examine to whole subject and report to the Conference without delay..

DR. ALFRED PROTESTS.

Dr. Alfred Sze protested at the exclusion of China The Japanese delegate, Mr. S. Kaku, abstained from voting on the ground that the question had been insufficiently debated.

Finally it was agreed that the committee should hear the views of the Chinese and Portu guese delegatos if necessary.

FRENCH STATEMENT.

The French delegate made a statement with regard to the diminution of opium-smoking to Indo-China, where the regulations were strict.

He declared that restriction of cultivation was the only practical remedy for the traffic in opium.

NO PROBLEM IN INDIA.

Mr. C. S. Campbell, the delegate from India, declared that the problem of opium-smoking did not exist in India. It had been prohibited since 1891 throughout all India.

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FENG'S TYPE OF CHRISTIANITY.

(Reuter's Service,)

LONDON, November 6. The annual dinner of the China Association. was held to-night pnder the chairmanship of Sir Johs Jordan. Among those present were the Earl of Oaslow, the Marquess of Sligo, Sir Frank Swettenham, Sir James Lockhart, Lieut-Gen- Sir George Macdonogh and the Bishors of North Chius and Hongkong (Rt. Rev. F. L. Norrin, D. D. and Rt. Rev. C. R. Duppny, D. D).

THE PEKING COUP. Referring to the coup of General Feng Yu hang, Sir John described Feng as an Old Testa 'ment type of Christian.

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He declared Feng had never been a whole- hearted supporter of Marshal Wu Pet-fu's plan of the unification of China by force."

Sir John, expressed the opinion that Wu Poi- fu's Idea was impracticable. Unity was only attainable, he said, by an arrangement giving the Provinces a large share in the government-of-the- country.

**China was too large and her problems too complex to admit of rigid control by a Centrál Authority,

Sir John considered foreigners were partly responsible for the present trouble in China, through the violation of the embargo on the import of arms.

He suggested the question should be submitted to the League of Nations.

"Sir John found the railways the most discourag- Ing feature of the situation in China.

Instead of paying handsomely, they were no longer national concerns; they had, on the other haud, become the preserves of Provincial Tuchuns and threatened to become a curse instead of a blessing....

INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA.

Referring to the influence of Russia, Sir Johny thought that the disquieting feature was the deter mined effort of Mr. Karakhan and a section of the younger Chinese to undermine the Treaty rights of Britain and the other Powers. -

Sir John considered it impossible for M. Karakhan to participate in the deliberations of the Corps Diplomatiqué at Peking.

The Russian Treaty of 1924, said Sir John, and the treaties of other Powers, were as far apart as the poles, giving no common ground for deliberation.

CROWN LEASES. ›

leases at the Treaty Forts, Sir John contended that Dealing with the renewal of British Crown

the Imperial decision on the matter ought to be reconsidered and the case submitted to arbitration or the Courts,

BASE AT SINGAPORE, Recalling the anxieties of war, Sir John rejoiced that oar position But the position in Burma was different. The in the Far East was now likely to be strengthen- registered smokers had fallen from 34,000 to 3,500.ed by a naval base at Singapore, whereby the A special memorandum on the subject had been Dominions in the Southern hemisphere would communicated to the Secretariat of the League of never be again exposed to the risks of the late war. Nations,

Mr. Harold Clayton, C.I.E., representing the Government of Burma, described the regulations in Burma. He entirely associated himself with the French delegates in the opinion that the remedy was restriction of poppy-growing:

During the last three years, he said, 3.500 kilo had been seized annually, at the Burma-Chiness

frontier.

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Dr. Sze inquired the nationality of the smug. giers, the quantity smuggled, and the country of origin.

JAPAN AND FORMOSA. . .

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Dr. Sze proceeded to congratulate Japan on the success of her efforts to reduce opium-smoking in Formosa.

He added that hat Japan, had done, other Powers could do in their territories..

"A DROP IN THE OCEAN" Replying to Dr. Sze. Mr. Campbell declared that no opium from any Native Indian State could find its way to China. Compared to China the Indian production of opium was only a drop in the ocean:"

A JOCULAR REFERENCE. Sir L. Worthington Evans, responding on behalf of the guests, jocularly referred to the mass of official papers regarding the Crown leases. He. thought the conclusion reached was not unfavour- able to the holders, but equitable and just. He was of the opinion that if the question was reconsidered, it would be reconsidered in the spirit of equity and Justice which distinguished all Governments."

He considered that what was wanted in China, as in Europe; was a government pledged to stability, while the majority of the people guarante- ed that probability. (Cheers).

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COMMUNIST TRIAL

ATTEMPT AT RESCUE FAILS.

(Reater's Service.)

REVAL, November 5. The trial of 150 Communists or the charge of ploring a coup d'etat begins on the 10th insta

Two men were discovered last night piercing a hole in the wall of the prison and were fired on by the police. They were arrested after an exchange of shots.

DELEVIGNE'S CLINCHING ARGUMENT.

Following the incidents at the morning sitting of the Conference, Sir Malceta Delevigne space at the afternoon session. After expressing dis appointment at Dr. Sze's statement. Sir Malcolm made a serious indictment of China atitude The met confessed that they had been hired which made a strong impression on the members by a sobret Communist organisation to attempt to of the Conference, but

Ceny rescue the prisoners.

Both men were court-martialled and sentenced He said there had been no change in the Chinese delegation's attitude

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the important question of cultivation of the poppy

The Chinese delegation was making the same speeches It had been, uttering for three years. He reminded the Conference that China produced the

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bulk of the world's opium. Yet, in 1922 she for BALDWIN POLICY WILL NOT CHANGE, warded a report to the Secretariat of the League, qu asserting that the cultivation of poppy had ceased. He produced eloquent figures showing the quantities of ophum seized in Hongkong and Malayalam

LONDON, November 6.

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