ILLICIT DRUG TRADE
REPORT OF NARCOTIC BUREAU. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) GENEVA, Jan. 23. The white drug kings of Europe are making colossal fortunes by pouring their poisons into Egypt and the Far East, states Major General Russell Pasha, head of Cairo Narcotics Bureau, who arrived at Geneva to report to too League Advisory Commission on opium. Russeljl tracked hack drugs from Cairo carpet sellers to firms in Zurich. Mulhaiisen ami Basle. One firm in Mulhaiisen manufactured and exported hot ween 1920 and 1929 more than six tons of heroin, nearly a ton of morphia, four hundredweight of cocaine, although the world’s legitimate medicinal and scientific requirements of heroin annually is only 1J tons, nussell claims that a big international organisation has been broken up by Swiss police based on information from the Cairo Bureau.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 5
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142ILLICIT DRUG TRADE Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 5
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