Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1920 — ROUMANIA NEAR WAR WITH RUSS [ARTICLE]

ROUMANIA NEAR WAR WITH RUSS

Danubian Kingdom Prepares for Hostilities to Hold Bessarabia. LEAGUE WOULD RULE DRUGS Assembly at Geneva Takes Up Proposal to Assume Duties Formerly Carried on by Holland —Will Regulate Opium Traffic. Vienna, Dec. 161—Trouble between Routnanla and soviet Russia is fore- , cast in reports from Ukrainia received here. These advices declare that Rou- ... mania is adopting measures “indicative f imminence of war” with Russia over the possession of Bessarabia. League May Control Drugs. I Geneva, Dec. 16.—Proposal that the League of Nations assume Jhe duties 1 which heretofore have devolved upon Holland under the International opium I convention, regulating traffic in the j drug, was taken up by the assembly. The committee which had been investigating this, subject recommended that the secretariat of the league col- ; lect information from the Interested i countries and that the subject be further investigated by an advisory committee, including representatives from I the countries especially concerned— Holland, Great Britain. France, India [ Japan, China. Siam and Portugal. Duties Devolved on Dutch. Under the International opium convention. signed in 1912, the United States being among the signatories, various duties devolved upon the Dutch government. Among the provisos was one that the contracting powers should communicate with one another regarding various facts connected with the subject through the Dutch minister of foreign affairs. The ratification machinery also was placed in the hands of the Netherlands foreign offlc*'. The committee report mentioned the difficulty resulting from the absence of the United States and Germany from the league and suggested that if these governments could not forward their information to the league they might continue to communicate with Holland on the subject. « Owes Gratitude to U. S. During the discussion Dr. Wellington Koo, of the Chinese delegation, reviewed the efforts made by China during more than a century to suppress the opium habit. He recognized, he said, the great debt of gratitude China owed the United States for America’s aid in this work. He was particularly pleased, he'said, that the committee had decided the United States should be especially invited to send a representative to meet with the advisory committee.