CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 13

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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.