DRUG TRAFFIC
BULGARIA AS CHIEF CENTRE
LONDON, April 17. Th e career of London’s drug barons has reached it s zenith, and is now declining,” r s ays Mr Thomas Russel!, director 0 f the Egyptian Central Narcotics Bureau, according to the Cairo correspondent of “The Times.” Rus s ell Pasha, commar.d.nt of the Cairo City Police, describes a huge organisation (by which drugs are gent to the Continent. Drugs worth hundreds of .pounds a kilogram are exported to Europe by the ton, labelled “Creme de Beaute” and “Spaghetti.” .Bulgaria, where at. least four factories are working, ha.s replaced Turkey as the world’s centre «f the illicit traffic. The largest factory produces, every two months, 1500 kilograms of heroin, which is sufficient to give a <10111)10 dose daily to 3,000,000 addicts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 6
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131DRUG TRAFFIC Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 6
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