Show lUlA ESCAPES 5 O ONUS TRADE representative in Geneva Conference Shows Small irregular gular Exports of D Opium ium to United States F Feb reb iJ By A. A P. P P.- P. arg s made in certain qu quarters I t the governments of or Great f ta n and of ot British India are I responsible for the I se of or narcotics In America bese be- be se se and similar drugs i produced in and exported Jm m Britain's eastern dominion r answered by John Sohn Campbell ot of th the India gov- gov l nm at the Geneva opium i of August 1923 who an article in Iti the cur- cur 1 Asiatic Review on The Mum Question and America I ItI Campbell makes the cate- cate I jl cA cAst st statement t ment that India does opium to the th United I lites tes and only the most trifling at very Irregular In- In tv ls to countries on the Amer Amer- neither does India tOrt ott opium to England or to toI ther country for eventual rei re- re i ott to th the tM American continent I iE r- r ver no Indian Opium finds y to America by any channel l atSO et except possibly such U g quantities as liS may be t Tingled u by the tho cr crews WS of or ships t ding between Far Eastern Kastern and in th the United t t- t tand ports tes India does not now nor at It t any n time exported drugs to America either lly or indirectly TO GOVERNMENTS lie he declares that the In- In P ye government ha has for years dUy dAly pursued the policy of or orl I l log ing g opium as S far as 4 pos possible cil to governments of other retries es and nd eo 80 far from press- press 9 opium on any country F requires as a a. condition pre- pre ert to export that the Import- Import ila must satisfy Itself J lithe quantity asked for Is rea- rea 1 that the Importing gov- gov must certify that the I Is required for legitimate I poses and th that t It must assume administrative the and nd moral moUl re- re I of ot seeing that the Imported Is n not t employed purposes of ot abuse As a Ii reI ro re- re I c now sells roughly Of ot her Opium pium ex- ex ts dIrect to responsible gov- gov ments and has hRs refused to al- al In cases cales where t t was Ii satisfied d that the cerates ates produced were 1 INS SMUGGLING e M Opium smug smug- I e. e I g c can n only exist In virtue of ot s SC ve d demands made on India I Il dishonest or Incapable govern- govern l flit ts j demands which the India I ment cannot reasonably re- re le gC atil It Is 15 In a position to tofy l t fy itself on clear cle-ar evidence n e quantities asked for are ul uly large tl out the impossibility of or orrol L rol in m a country where the material is grown the writer that It is la the factories S where Ie e aro 1110 made that should be beI beed ed under adequate supervision Keal real menace to the world Mr I sees In the wholly a t and uncontrolled production ip pium um In China where more moreO iO Ijo O per cent of or the total crop um m is grown ii ar |