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DEFEATING THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS
-something new along the line of bird in the hand's worth two we see in in the bush." Shanghai papers that a "Wai Wah (deferred payment) cheque in the bank is worth Y.50 in banknotes.” The line forms to the right, Gentle
men!
"PRESENT-DAY Japan is solv- ing everything by means of actual force and does not need any trick to pretend anything on the surface,” states the President of the South Manchurian Railway Company. Well, well! At last we know what is really happening in the Far
ACCORDING to a Berlin dispatch to the London "Times," the Nazi Party in Upper Austria has pre- sented to Reichsfuehrer Hitler a prehistoric stone club as a symbol Russell Pasha, Director of the of the absorption of Austria by the Central Narcotics Intelligence Reich. Hmmmmmmm! Bureau at Cairo and member of
the Opium Committee of the A MAN could learn a great many League of Nations, has once
knew them.
more submitted an absorbingly things if he didn't think he already interesting report to the League. There is no man in the world
more feared by drug traffickers THAT BRITAIN should want so than Russell Pasha. Though his many big planes, in such a rush, is big aim has always been to indicative of the tempo of armament All "clean up" Egypt from the ray-throughout the world to-day. ages of drug addiction, he has of this may be to prevent the next been well aware that the roots of war, but if the next war comes, on the evil are to be found in dis- a world-wide scale, it will apparent- fant countries and contments. ly be the real thing. Have you pick- Thus, since he took up this worked out your stretch of beach along in 1929, he has turned the Tahiti's shores yet? search-light of publicity upon the vast ramifications of the drug smuggling business whether in Europe or the Far East. Where was neither shameless profit-making and preying upon human weakness have had to be exposed, he has never troubled to spare the feel- ings either of Governments or of
"During the voyage nearly all of individuals. ... ... His latest report the liner's original store—of two proves first, that his outspoken tons of caviar and 150,000 quarts of policy has been more than justi- French champagne was consumed." fied by results and secondly, that It sounds so gay, the popping of vigilance is still needed to bring those 150,000 cot's wrong, about the final suppression of please don't bother correct it. the drug traffic.
Since the Bureau obtained con-
WE'D LOVE to believe that it typographical error nor a publicity man's exuberance- that sentence in one of the news- paper, accounts of the Normandie's $1,000,000 cruise to Rio, which
reads
clusive proof of the main Europ- ACCORDING TO the Yomiuri ean sources of illicit drug supply Daily News of Tokyo, "Japanese of and exposed them (as Russell ficers in Shanghai are now extreme- Pasha says) with some bluntly angry at General Chiang Kai- ness at Geneva, the wholesale shek and have made a plan to trap manufacture in Europe has ceas- the Chinese leader." If they want éd."With all European coun- some cheese for bait they should re- tries fully alive to the dangers fer to a Japanese paper.
T. C. G of the traffic”, we are told, “this Bureau can now take up an at- titude less critical of other coun-
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tries, and devote her funds and portance, for it will now be pos- energies to protecting her own sible to deal with foreign drug country and seaboard. From traffickers on the same terms as the international point of view, Egyptians. Previously, --when the importance of this work lies cases had to go before the vari- in the fact that Egypt is a kind ous Consular Courts, the sen- of half-way house in drug tra- tences imposed upon members of fficking. Evidence there obtain a gang of three or four different ed can be used to suppress the nationalities' might vary from scourge in countries as far away person to person many escap- as the United States or Canada. ing with ridiculously light pun- The international nature of the ishments. Now the stringent traffic is well illustrated by the Egyptian Narcotics Law will be diverse nationalities
the applied to all offenders, irrespec- Scoundrels unmasked in Egypt. tive of nationality. The big dealers are Greek, British, Italian,
mainly Heroin manufacture in Man- French chukuo is described as "the and Egyptian, with a sprinkling greatest danger of all," and white
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