§ Mr. MANDERasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the increase in the traffic in intoxicating liquors in territory held under mandate by this country in the Cameroons and Togoland, what action the Government proposes to take?
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§ Dr. SHIELSThe latest reports to the Council of the League of Nations on the administration of these mandated territories indicate a decrease rather than an increase in the traffic in intoxicating liquors, except for an increase in the consumption of wine and beer in the southern section of Togoland. The reasons for this exception are given in paragraphs 115 and 138 of die reports for 1928 and 1929 respectively. The measures recently introduced in the Colony of the Gold Coast for the gradual abolition of all imports of gin, and the restriction of the imports of other alcoholic liquors, will have the same effect on the liquor traffic in the southern section of Togoland as in the Colony. The importation of all alcoholic
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