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AT THE 39th ANNUAL MENTING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRES

SION OF THE OPIUM TRADE held at Carton Hall, Westminater, on

Thursday 23rd April, 1914, Sir Matthew Dodsworth, Bart.

......, President,

in the chair, the following resolution, moved by Dr. Chapple, M.P.,

seconded by Mr. Sidney Robinson, M.?. and supported by

Mr. T .C.Taylor, M.P., was unanimously adopted:

This meeting, whilst expressing its heartfelt gratifi- estion at the ending of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic, oalla attention to the following points as claiming the prompt consideration of His Majesty's Government:

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(b)

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(d)

China's claim to be released at once and uncon-

ditionally from her treaty obligation to admit into her territories the remaining stooks of Indian opium, an obligation destitute of moral sanction.

The continued open sale of opium in some of the British Concessions in China and in the Inter- national settlement of Shanghai, whilst in adjoin. ing Chinese territories the sale is rigidly suppressed. This continued sale is contrary to article 18 of the Hague Opium Convention, which the British Delegates to the Second International Opium Conference have expressly stated "need not walt on ratification and enforcement of the Convention".

The open sale of opium for non-medical use in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, and British India, contrary to the principles laid down by the Hague Opium Conventim and which have long been applied in the United Kingdom, and more recently adopted in the self- governing dominions.

The provision and sale by the British Indian Goverment of opium pills for dosing infant children, a practice condermed by all competent medical opinion.

Walton Sochwirth

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