CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 306

INTERNATIONAL ANTI-OPIUM ASSOCIATION, PEKING

The President of the Council

of the League of Nations,

Geneva.

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sir,

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28, Erh Tiao Hutung,

Peking.

February 21st, 1921.

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 narcotics 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 is dependent

upon Hong Kong's (monopoly) be abolished. Since the

Japanese abolition of the monopolies (at) Kiaochow (and)

Kwantung leased territories these (are the only places

(in the) Far East where (the) noxious drug traffic is

legalized."

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