CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 19

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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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