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"Yard" Starts 'Drive' SCOTLAND YARD
Watch On Seamen Suspects
NAB I.R.A. SUSPECTS
A New A New Drug
each occurring on or outside the premises of a bank.
PRIEST THROWN
canal
INTO CANAL
It is noted that this new series of what Cardinal Hinsley, Arch- bishop of Westminster, described
priest who was thrown into in a sermon in which he solemnly
at
Charelles, France, condemned them as "cowardly and by
unknown assailants atrocious outrages," took place im-
life to. his mediately after fresh measures cassock, which acted as a lifebuoy. taken against the so called “Irish Republican Army" by the Govern ment of Eire.
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two
his
LONDON, TO-DAY.
SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICERS
At midnight the priest, Father. LONDON, JUNE 11. OF SCOTLAND YARD WERE
Hardy, was asked to go to the bed- LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS ARE VERY ACTIVE YESTERDAY IN
More than a score of individuals side of a dying man. On his way HERE AGAIN! ONCE MORE THE CONNECTION WITH THE have been questioned by the police he was attacked by two men, who DRUG - TRAFFICKER STALKS SERIES OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS in the course of their investiga- gagged and bound him and pulled THE SHADY CAFES, DOCKSIDE WHICH OCCURRED IN THE tions, in which they have visited his Cassock over his head before “DIVES” AND EATING “JOINTS WEST END OF LONDON LATE houses in all parts of London, and throwing him into the canal. OF BRITAIN'S PORTS.
ON SATURDAY NIGHT, WHEN last evening five men were still
The cashock, however, brought 17 PERSONS WERE HURT detained for further questioning. him to the surface, permitting him THOUGH NONE SERIOUSLY.
No arrests have yet been made. to cut his way loose with a knife There were four main explosions, British Wireless.
and to swim ashore,
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Under the tables, foreign seamen pass little balls of raw opium-at a price most people can afford to pay.
No
But there the drama ends. more does the addict retire to a back-room couch to smoke the pipe of dreams. He knows a trick worth two of that.
Back in the safety of his Own home, he takes the pellet, boils it, and injects the juice into his arm with a syringe.
Recently opium has poor man's vice again.
become a Robbed of
their rich clientele by police activity, the international "Drug Ring" could not afford to ignore the wide and profitable fields provided by dockside markets.
Agents of the “ring” were posted at Havre, Copenhagen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to induce foreign seamen, through their own weak- ness for the drug, to smuggle opium into this country.
PORT ARRESTS
That they succeeded is shown by arrests at Glasgow, Southampton, Cardiff, Liverpool Limehouse and North Shields.
These included seamen, firemen, stokers, ship-storekeepers, fitters- and tourist agents.
Most of them were Lascars, Arabs and Chinese.
In an effort to stop the menace, police and preventive officers are now engaged in a vigorous question="" ing and search of foreign seamen, and many cunning hiding-places in ships holds have been discovered.
Vine-st. and Tottenham Court-rd, police stations. are on the alert to nip in the bud leakages from East End traffickers to West End cafes and night clubs.
Air-mail packets are also being investigated, as boxes of drugged cigarettes were discovered being sent to an American dance hostess living in the Mayfair area.
BRITISH CLAIM FOR DAMAGED DESTROYER
London," To-day, Questions were asked in the House of Commons yesterday re- garding Italian and German troops in Spain.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, said he was satisfied that the great major- ity had been withdrawn.
He added he believed the minor- ity still remaining would also be with
Referring to the damage to
H.M.S. Hunter o 37. Mr Butler rever
ment's
sed at 4127,000.
This, he said, to General Franc
on
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