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amount of the race manufactured and consumed and the amounts exported and i porteñ.

The transportation of all raw material end drugs should be so controlled as to prevent unlicensed shipmonte on any vessels or through the territories of any partios to

the agreement.

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The objections against the American proposal were

It much the same as the ones against the British.

presentei the same disadvantages with regard to rationing, too Ludden decreases of production, and in the same way as the British scheme, it vas built on the supposition that the figures of the manufacture in all countries were known, and that reliable figures could bo obtained for per capita requirements, which supposition was deemed not to be Justifiable. The American proposal also provided for the same measures to be taken against excessive production of Opium and of coca, which system was open to the objection that the conditions in opium producing countries were quite different from that of the coca leaf producing countries.

had been sub- The per capita figure for opium which mitted to the Preparatory Committee, namely 450 milligrarmos,

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