DRUG SMUGGLING.
GENEVA, Juno 20. It is two o’clock in the dark hours of tho morning on the Hooghly. For hours Customs agents on board a fast craft have been intently watching the steamer Kut Chang through the darkness. At last they are rewarded by the sight of a boat stealing away from the ship’s side. After an exciting chase the boat is seized, and there is discovered aboard 1.275 ounces of cocaine of unknown origin. Snob is the graphic story of a seizure of drugs given by the Indian Opium Advisory .Committee at Gendelegate at tho League of Nations eva.° This one consignment far exceeded the entire legitimate requirements of Tndia for a single year. The delegate estimated that the illicit import of tho drug into that country is more than forty times the annual legitimate import. It was also disclosed that heroin is shipped to Shanghai cin Hamburg packed in tombstones. The position with regard to illicit drug traffic is said to lie worse than it has ever been.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1928, Page 1
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