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[BY LIBUT COLONEL F. T. ETHERTON.] The suppression of the opium traffic ¦ is engaging the attention of an inter- national commission under the auspices of the League of Nations, and most of the Staten who are parties to the League assist at the conferences. The Russian Soviet, However, declined the invitation to attend, gave"vent to derisive state ments implying bad faith to the nations participating, and asserted that the lat ter are merely striving to serve their own. commercial interests and gain material benefit.

STATE GOVERNORS.

REPLY TO AUSTRALIA. NO LIMITATION OF CHOICE." Mr Amery, Secretary for Dominion Affairs, in reply to questions by Captain Fairfax and Viscount Sandon, disclosed to the House of Commons last month the text of the reply which he sent to the State Governors of the Commonwealth of Australia in answer to a letter from the Australian Premiers proposing that the office of State Governor should in future be Alled by Australian citizens.

The reply, after stating that it is manifest that there very strong opposition to the proposal, which might result at some future date in a demand for à reversal of the proposal. if now

These remarka were singularly in opportune, for the Bolsheviks are deriv-adopted, concludes: ing to inconsiderable revenue from the exploitation of the opiam traffic in Con- tral Asia The desire for revenue.gives rise to interesting manoeuvres on" tha part of States whose financial straita are acute, and in this the Bolsheviks show originality as well as their cus tomary unscrupulousness.

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WHY IS OXFORD BEATEN?

11 VICTORIES FOR CAMBRIDGE,

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HOME-BRED TALENT.

What is wrong with Oxford University sport!

The following list shows the various events which have resulted in victories for Cambridge over Oxford during the

past few months :- Boat-rase: Sports. Boxing. Rugby football. Golf. Fencing.

Hockey. Cross-Country

Relay racing. Billiards. Cheak

running.

In the last five ericket matches Cum- bridge have won three and Oxford one. Last year's match was drawn in favour of Cambridge.

Oxidi has defeated Cambridge. nt lacrosse and ice hockey,

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Experts who predicted that Oxford would be enabled to sweep the board with the aid of Rhodes Scholars, the pick of American and Dominion talent, have been proved temporarily wrong, anys the London Daily Express. The Cambridge. men are, so to speak, homefed Their THE OCEAN ACCIDENT AND musele has been produced in country.

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Oxford remains confident, of future success, in spite of the monotoncus accession of Cambridge victories,

FORMER OXFORD BOAT CLCH PRESIDENT'S VIEW:

His Majesty's Government have, therefore, come to the conclusion that there is no sufficient justification for the suggested abandonment of the existing procedure, under which there is no limitation of choice. Mr. Amery's statement was as follows: I received last autumn a letter signed by the Premiers of nil the Australian States except Victoria, in which, in effect, it was proposed that it should be laid down as the constitutional practice Ever since they came into power the

to be observed in the future that all productive capacity of the land has vacancies hereafter occuring in the office of State Governor should be filled by diminished, and in Turkestan prosperity

Australian citizens nominated by the

"I see no reason why Oxford should has given place to penury and famine.

respective. State Governments of the day. Revenue sagged in proportion, so the I propose to lay papers at an early date, not regain her position in all sports," but in the meantime. I am arranging for said Mr. P. C Mallam, former president Bolsheviks cast about for means to pro-

a Daily Express representative, vide the wherewithal, and on learningFy of my reply, es conveyed by of the Oxford University Beat Club, to telegraph on March 8th, to be circalated Following is that opium could be smuggled into with the official report. Chinese territory in exchange for good silver, they cancelled the regulations, in so far as opiam is concerned, under which all articles are annexed for local consumption only.

the reply as conveyed by telegraph:

Telegram from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Governor of New South Wales:

Luck bas had a certain amount to do with Oxford's defeats this year, but I admit that there are other reasons for the number of Cambridge wins

I think the question of training is. taken more seriously at Cambridge. afen at Oxford are inclined to think they are fit before they really are so. The motor-cat enters largely into this ques tion. The authorities at Cambridge are

more down on motor-cars, than is the

case at Oxford.

I have sent to Governors of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, by despatches dated March 3rd, reply to letter of August 20th from Premiers of those States regarding appointment of State Governors, and I have-seat copy of

For example. at Oxford on a Sun, the latter and reply to Governor of day a man will motor to a golf course, play a game, and then motor back. Before the war few people had motor cars, and they were required on n Sun- A training walk. The introduction of more slack. the motor-car has made training become

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The province of Semiretchinak, in Russian Türkestan, is, the chief opium growing centre and in the summer months the poppy fields resemble a vast red carpet. At that season the districts adjacent to Tokmak and the Great Kara Lake, where the soil is peculiarly adapt, ed to the growing of the poppy. Leest in the future that all vacancies bereafter day to get up before breakfast and take with life and activity in the preparation of the drug. which niny eventually find its way to the opium dens of Limehouse and the secret orgies that occasionally come to light in the West" End.

When prepared for export it passes the border into Chinese territory by un frequented routes, for over such a nat frontier it is not possible for the Chinese to watch every valley and ravine. The Kirghiz supply guides and transport when required. and so well organised is

In this latter the Premiers in effect propose, that it should be laid down as the constitutional practice to be observed occurring in the office of State Governor should be filled by Australian citizens, nominated by the respective State Gov- ernments of the day.

The Premiera acknowledge in the warmest terms the qualifications and services bath of the existing Governors and of their predecessora and it is a great satisfaction that the change is not proposed on the ground that the present system does not work well.

On previous occasions on which the question of restricting the field of choice

Rhodes Scholars come to Oxford as ready-made cracks This fact prevents the development of second-class athletes If you rely on. aracks your general standard suffers. into first-class men, Rhodes Scholars are all good fellows, and the three events which Oxford won in the Varsity sports were won by them. MORE WORK.

"More attention, I think, is paid to for the State Governorships in this man- games at Cambridge. Oxford has the ner has been raised, his Majesty's Gov-reputation of being the harder-working ernment have pointed out certain dif- university. At Cambridge young athletes. the system that the loads are pass-culties to which the proposal appeared who may not be extraordinarily good at to give rise, but, in principle, it was their work are given a helping hand by recognised that the ultimate decision re- young and athletic Dons. In fact, the sted with the people of Australia. This scholastic outlook at Oxford is detrimen- was asserted by Lord Milner in the tal to the athletic outlook. Oxford's most explicit terms when, on the occasion coaches are generally older men than to which allusion is made in the Cambridge coaches. They tend to lose

that the the ́ ́ drive' of the younger men. - Premier's letter, he stated matter was "for the Australians them- selves to decide.

ed through without interference and the distributing centres, brought to where they are disposed of by the smug glers' agents. The traffic is highly pro- htable, and when cost of production, transport charges and all incidental ex- penses have been defrayed there is still a profit of approximately £165 per pony load, a very large return on the capital outlay.

EMUGGLERS' CLEVER RUSES.

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Chapters might be written on the wile and stratagems of the smugglers to run their cargoes through. All sorts subterfuges are adopted to ensure the onward passage of the drug from the border line for there the real danger commences, and Chinese officials and

police are indulgent or exacting accord ing to the amount of silver dust cast be fore them.

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The smuggling sensor coincides rather opportunely with the gathering of the harvest, and so the opium is often cleverly concealed in sacks of corn brought down for sale in the grain,

markets.

The importation of skins and carpets likewise offers a good medium, and you may see them neatly rolled and slung across baggage ponies but betraying no sign of the drug concealed within their depths.

One sedate old greybeard, the type of Moslem elder one sees in the picture books, had a cart specially constructed hollow shafts and cleverly arranged spaces between floor boarda, a novel vehicle that would carry a thousand. pounds worth of opium. This sancti- inonious old gentleman, whom one a sociated only with the mosque and the prayer carpet, encountered bad luck.

Accepting, as they do, the principle that the matter is one to be decided by Australian opinion, it is unnecessary for his Majesty's Government, to enter on any discussion of the issue involved in the suggested restriction of the field of choice. But if the Premiers' proposal is to be adopted there should be no doubt that Australian opinion generally is in favour of the change and so strong-! ly in favour of it that a subsequent de-

mand for its reversal is not likely to arise.

Governors.

"Concentration on whole-time games

is a feature of Cambridge athletics. A man will take up Rugby or rowing and stick to it. At Oxford there is a ten- deney for a man to play one game, one afternoon and a different game the next day

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Mr. Algernon Aspinall, secretary of the A NEW FORM OF ENERGY.

West India Committee, announced last month that he had received information Remarkable experiments, establishing of a legacy bequeathed to the colony of the existence of à fourth vitamin and re- British Honduras by Henry Edward It cannot, in the view of his Majesty's realing great vitamin energy in lemon Ernest Victor, Baron Bliss, formerly of Government, be said that this is the case and orange peel, have just been com Brandon Park, Suffolk, and Quarry Court, On the contrary, it is manifest that there pleted at the School of Biochemistry at Marlow, a well-known yachtsman, who is a very strong opposition to the pro Cambridge, says the Central News. It died aboard bin yacht Sea King. RY.S., posal, and that, having regard to the was bere that vitamins were originally at Belize, the capital of British Honduras, Mr. Aspinall states that his information fact that opinion in Australia on the found by Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, but on March 9th.

hitherto only three A, B, and C-have subject is so acutely divided, there can be no assurance that if the proposal were been generally recognised. The research is that Baron Bliss bequeathed to British The Governor, the now agreed to the decision would be work on which this announcement is Honduras a fortune estimated locally at accepted as a definitive settlement of the based has been carried out over a period 25,000 a year. question. His Majesty's Government of two years by Dr. B. G. Willimott, Colonial Secretary, and the Attorney- have, therefore, come to the conclusion Ph.D., and his collaborators, who, aftor General of that Colony are appointed that there is no suficient justification prolonged experiments with white. rats trustees and executors with fall power as for the suggested abandonment of the and guinea-pigs, have proved that vita regards the use of the money. It is stipu only British material shall be used, and existing procedure under which there is mins exist in varying amounts in the lated that, in any schemes of development no limitation of choice, and I should be perl of the citrus fruits glad if you would inform your Premier has been rather a mystery." said Dr. ture of 2100 a year on a regatta, direc- "Hitherto the content of lemon-rind only British labour employed. The will also includes a provision for the expendi accordingly.

all other State Willimont in an- interview in London, tion that he was to be buried at Fort Please repeat to

but feeding experiments with rate on special lemon-peel diets have shown the George, and a granite monument erected. peel to be rich in vitamin B-the vita Beside the monument was to be placed min which specially controls the nutrian soft, obelisk showing a red light, for the use of shipping, in place of the pre- His cart collided with another and home-made boots and Manchester chin- tion of the nerves. The peel also con- smashed one of the tell-tale shafts-tzes and muslins. These last are brought tains vitamins A and C in smaller sent lightin mishap which ended his career as a through India and over the Karakoram amounts. By miseroscopic studies we smuggler, for time at all events.

Mountains, the world's highest trade have traced & remarkable botanical Being Moslems, the women of Tur route, on which you must eross seven system in the peel resembling veins and

arteries, and it would appear probable After a drought which lasted six weeks, kestan are voiled, and the opium traders passes, the lowest of which exceeds 10.000 are consequently able to use them as a.

feet and the highest 18,500 feet. It is that the plant user this system to trana Mr. Mares, the New South Wales Gov- mask for contraband Beautiful maidens curious to think that the products of the port vitamins manufactured by the belp erament meteorologist, reported recently will recline in the travelling carts with Lancashire mills should be the medium of the sun's rays into the actual body a fait of 60.000 million tons of rain an air of innocence and virtue, which is of exchange for a drug that affects, of the fruit. Vitamins also exist in the in New South Wales in ten days, enhanced by the length and quality of directly and indirectly, the welfare of peel of the orange, grape-fruit, and averaging. 2 inches to the acre

lime, and their discovery will, no doubt,, Mr. Mares fecara serious, floods, espe.. the veils they wear; moreover, in con half the population of Asia. souance with the rules of Moslem A considerable amount of opium is be very soon taken into account som cially in the river system along the const etiquette, none would dare violate the grown in Afghanistan, whence it is immercially, for while the fruit juices have north of Sydney and extending later to Banctity of the veil.

norted into Chrun through Wakhan, in long been recognised by science, like most the central areas of the State. ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. the north-west corner of Afghanistan. valuable sources of stored sunlight, the As some of the local officials are interest peel hins been regarded as a waste pro- The existence of this heavy traffic ined in the trade they do not display much duet. In food factories, where tons of opium in Asiatic Hussin, which has activity in its suppression.

In its peel are thrown away annually, it should cod liver oil, green vegetables, and milk, escaped notice, makes possible not only passage to Chinese territory the opium be utilised as a valuable source of vita- It can also be supplied in the form of Soviet taxation, but an extensive system crosses the Roof of the World, being min energy. the strong sunshine. Our main experiments of exchange Large quantities of manu- convoyed by Kirghiz-hardy nomads Asked as to the authenticity of the new confirm work already carried out in Ame factured goods, raw and prepared whose lives are spent at an altitude vitamin D, Dr. Willimott said it could rica

The acceptance of a new vitamin, leather, cloth goods, and material of higher than the summit of Mont Blanc be regarded as a sub-division of A. A every day use are imported into Russia From the world's roof it will pass across diet lacking vitamin A produces eve he mided," will mean that a good deal from: Chinese territory in exchange for the plains of Turkestan and through troubles and arrests growth a condition of scientific work on foods already com- opiam, and often the drug is paid for China, a journey of several thousand seen in Vienna and elsewhere after the pleted will have to be re-examined A shen taken over in Bemiretchinsk with miles and may, as in the case of the war. Vitamin D is a controlling factor fifth vitamin, said to affect reproduction, the cotton cloth of Chinese Turkestan, Russian article, ultimately gure in alia rickets, and is found abundantly in has been reported in America; but so far

it has not been traced at Cambridge. (Continued on next Column.) police court case in London.-Daily Maile (Continued at foot of next Column.),

60,000 MILLION TONS OF RAIN.