“DRUG KINGS” AT WORK
GANG OPERATES HEAVILY WITH NARCOTICS HUGE ILLICIT EXPORTS United I’. A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. GENEVA, Thursday. 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 the Cairo Narcotics Bureau, who has arrived at Geneva to report to the League of Nations’ Advisory Commission on Opium. Major-General Russell traced back drugs from a Cairo carpet-seller to firms in Zurich, Mulhausen, and Basle. One firm in Mulhausen manufactured and exported, between 1926 and 1929, more than six tons of heroin, nearly a ton of morphine, and 4ewt of cocaine, although the world’s legitimate medicinal and scientific requirements of heroin are annually only lg tons. Major-General Russell claims that a big international organisation has been broken up by the Swiss police, a claim based on information from the Cairo bureau.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 9
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