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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 8

The illicit traffic in drugs manufactured in Western Europe to which, the I Geneva • Convention applies has to all I intents and purposes disappeared. This ' statement was made in London lately by Mr M. D. Perrms, of the British Home Office, the administrative officer of the Dangerous Drugs Act. There was some reason to hope, he said, that the traffickers would also b driven from Turkey, which was the source of much of the illicit traffic. Mr Perrins said that in the record of the fight against this traffic there were true stories quite equal in excitement, to the average fiction on the subject. The principal markets for smuggling drugs were now the United States, China, Egypt, India, the South American Republics, and, to'a. lesser extent, Canada. In the United States, he said, the problem was intimately connected with rum-running. At present the principal world routes followed by smugglers were from the Dardanelles to Marseilles, and thence to the United States and the Far Eaßt.