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The police uprooted what is believed to be the genera' headquarters m Europe of a vast illicit traffic in cocaine. morphine and other drugs. A aang of ten. some of whom are of Rus-sdaiwu-igin. have been arrested. The police have traced the export to Japan .and China of enormous quantities of drugs manufactured in Germany. Expert chemists are believed to have co-operated in the traffic. The drugs were so treated that they appeared in the guise of harmless articles. such as shaving soap, hoot polish and varnish. „ , The traffic has yielded enormous profits. The usual price paid by Chinese purchasers has been equal to four pounds per ounce of which the origami cost was only one sixth of that sum The drugs were at first shipped by wav of London, hut such large quantities were seized that the smugglers had latteh’.v dispatched the goods through Copenhagen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1927, Page 2
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