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would intensify smuggling.

Article 6 limits the whole

trade in narcoties under the Convention to the parties thereto. The unlimited right to the seizure of narcotics roposed in Article 9 was also a dangerous mecsure to

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Kr. Boville replied to the objection against the torms he had used, saying that this draft convention vta rot meant to deal with the question of prepared opium, as this subject would already have been dealt with by the First Conference. With regard to the harmless derivatives, Neville said that unless control of all forms of derivatives wore established, it would be impossible to supervise the traffic in an effective way, The United States Goverment thought that the traffic in derivatives should not be regarded as an ordinary trado, and that it should be,

In roference to as for co possible, discouraged,

the difficulty in bringing offending States to account, Ir, Novillo pointed out that the whole scheme was necessarily based on the assumption that the manufacturing States would subscribe to the agreement and would take measures to protect themselves if at any time countries outside the agreement began to manufacture the druge for illicit purposes. Article 9 of the prope el lid not imply the right of seizure on the high seas.