FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 3 4, VOLUME III



                           [Enclosure 2]
The Secretary General of the League of Nations (Avenol) to the
         Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (Hirota)

                                          GENEVA, March 19, 1934.
  YouR EXCELLENCY: On January 20th, 1934, the Council of the
League of Nations considered certain suggestions made by the Ad-
visory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs
at its seventeenth session (October 30th-November 9th, 1933) in re-
gard to the control of the opium and drug traffic with Manchuria and
Jehol, territory also known as "Manchukuo". In accordance with
the suggestions of the Advisory Committee, the Council instructed
the Secretary-General to draw the attention of the chief producing
and manufacturing countries to the necessity of supervising most
strictly any application for the introduction of narcotics into this
territory. The Council further pointed out that it is understood, in
accordance with Articles 3, 8 and 15 of the Hague Convention of 1912,
that exports of opium (raw and prepared) to the territory in question
cannot be authorised.
  I have the honour, therefore, in accordance with the instructions of
the Council, to draw the attention of your Government to this matter
and would refer you to the report to the Council on the work of the
seventeenth session of the Opium Advisory Committee (document
C.642.M305.1933.XI) and the Minutes of the Council's meeting on
January 20th, 1934, copies of which have already been communicated
to your Government.
  I have [etc.]                        For the Secretary-General:
                                        [Signature not indicated]
                                     Director of the Opiuum Trafc
                                     and Social Questions Sections


893.114 Narcotics/848
    The Consul at Tientsin (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State

No. 626                                 TIENTSIN, August 27, 1934.
                                            [Received October 6.]
  SIR: I have the honor to refer to the Department's telegram of
August 2, 1 p. m., and to my reply of August 24, 9 a. m.23 on the above
subject, and in that connection, to submit the following report.
  In its issue of June 16, 1934, the I Shih Pao, a vernacular paper
published in Tientsin and noted for its courageous editorial policy,

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