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NEW

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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933.

EUROPE'S NEW OPIUM TRAFFIC CENTRE STARTLING REVELATIONS BY RUSSELL PASHA

CHURCHES NOT CABS

CHIEF INTEREST OF· JOHN HANSOM

London.

You may still sometimes 800 a hansom cab driving along the the gay

FACTORIES WORKING AT FULL STEAM London streets, relle of

IN BULGARIA

Cairo..

The great drug trafficking interests which carry on illicit tradą from country to country have been crippled in Turkey-but have raised their heads again in the Balkans.

"The pocket buck", it says, "was They have quailed before the iron rule of Mustapha Kemal a perfect 'Who's Who to the con- Pasha, the mighty "Victor". His traband trade and gave.the key to stringent measures to atop the the inverted code which he was making and selling of druga using in his telegrams," while the Turkoy are "the greatest national code contained all phrases which of might be required in the gangs' contribution to the solution the whole drug problem that has operatione dealing with shipping, financing, and the goods in which yet been made".

druge could be concenied.

in

But the makers and sellers of "dope" are not defeated. They have created a new centre for the manufacture and illicit ex- port of drugs-in Bulgaria.

Russell This la revealed by Pasha, the famous British Direc- tor of the Central Narcotice In- telligence Bureau and Command- ant of the Cairo City Police.

MEDICINE & SCIENCE ONLY.

Russell Pasha, who is one of the most romantic figures of modern times, describes in a graphic re- port the endless fight against the drug traffic, the ramifications of international gangs, and the wiles of trackers.

days of the "naughty ninoties," of young "bloods" with flowing whis- kers, of the days of, top hats and tight trousers.

In 1880 there wore more than seven thousand hansoms licensed; to-day there are four--and they aro not often in evidence except on such occasions as Boat Raco night, or Cup-final day.

THE

FUNNEL

BLUE

LINE

/REGULAR › AND FAST. | PASSENGER SERVICES

FREIGHT AND

It was not cabo, however, but churches which formed the main interest in the life of John Hansom LONDON SERVICE

the man who invented this famous "For the first time, in the type of cab 100 years ago, for ho history of narcotics Investiga. was an ecclesiastical architect and tion," the report remarks, "we

PATROCLUS

ACHILLES

7 Jane Marseillas, London, Rotterdam

& Glasgow 14 Juno Casablanca, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Holi

Churches. LIVERPOOL SERVICE Catholic Roman are given an authentic guide-won a high reputation as a designor

MACHAUN book to the inner circles of the of

Plymouth Cathedral is his work.

NEW YORK SERVICE illelt dope trade".

DEFEATING OFFICIALS.

So, like many another inventor, Hansom received little money from

of the

MARON

30 June

11 June

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The report goes on to reveal ways in which attempts have been the design of his "patent safety PACIFIC SERVICE made to get drugs past the eyes cab". He sold the patent to a money, for bottle of cetved none of this of the officials. Some of these are: company for £10,000, but he re-

Concealment of a cocaine in the watch pocket of a after acting as manager man's trousers,

firm for only a short time, he left! to carry on with his architectural work. After his resignation the company was less successful and he returned to it and once more ita him. prosperity returned with For this he received £800-all that

of

Hashish placed in the double containing bottom of a basket grapes,

Hiding

hashish among Russell Pasha records that "Tur-

olives,

Smuggling hashishi in the axle- key has not merely been content

box of a Palestine Railway train, with closing down these factories

Hollow tubes in brass bedsteads fan the Bosphorus) but has de-

in which herein was placed, cided to join battle with the illicit

A small piece of hair was clipped traffe by limiting the cultivation

needs of out of a camel'a cont between the of raw opium to medicine and science. . The hump and the flank and fixed with Ghazi has by a stroke of the pen glue on to the side of a slab of the hashish, which was then stuck in dealt a staggering blow to

the hair, had the place where illicit drug traffic".

the

So the next round of the un-originally been.

A note on "Drug Addicts and begins. Russell ceasing. fight Pasha is beginning a new eam Drug Addiction" is added by Dr. paign--this time directed against. W. Dudgeon, Director of the

Lunacy Division. the Bulgarian Government,

"I am definitely

able to state

that the European centre for the

manufacture of heroin destined

HOSPITALS OVERCROWDED

be made out of his invention.- Reuter.

ENGINES WITH A MILEAGE

RAILWAYS RECORDS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN

Sydney, N.S.W. Motorists boast about the mile-

He relates that nearly 500 ad- entirely for the illicit trade has dicta received free treatment after now shifted from Istanbul to the it had beeh decided to admit suchage their cars have run, but the cases on their personal request oven distances quoted are small com- with some records of capital city of Bulgaria, Sofia".

to the extent of overcrowding the pured hospitals, and that Khanka hospital locomotives still running on the should take all the non-paying cases. South Australian Railways. The

"It is regretted," he says, "that

acceas to

The oldest engine still in service on main line traffic is No. 34 Class

FACTORIES AT WORK. These words appear in the in- troduction, and in the body of the the experiment in so far as curing best is that of No. 129 class F, report it in stated that "The fac-addiction is concerned, is a failure which has covered 1,213,308 miles It is feared that the only since it was Arst issued to traffic tories (in Bulgaria) are working perfectly openly with no attempt radical cure for addiction is to im

prove the moral sense of the in-on April 7, 1894, at concealment",

dividual. In the meantime the "It is said that there are nine only hope is to make factories now working in Bul-drugs very diicult and their pos- garia," the Pasha continues:session as unpleasant as possible", K, which has been operating for Officers of the Narcotic Bureau 64 years, and is now stationed in "my information gives me four, of which the most important is are stated by the report to meet the Murray Bridge division. - It at Radomir near Sofia. with increasing difficulty in arrest has run 1,072,798 miles. Of the

of the proof "This Radomir factory started Ing traffickers-a

W. A. Webb, when Commissioner, the Pacific type, No. 604, has work at the beginning of Octobersalutary effect of the severe big engines introduced by Mr. and in the first two months turned penalties now inflicted in Egypt.

the covered

greatest distance 264,913 miles. This

UPPER EGYPT "TOUGHS."

out about 1,500 kilogrammes of heroin all of which was smuggled

of the namely, In one case an agent out of the country in double-bot-

and frequently tomed trunks into Germany and bureau got in touch with an im- engine has been running since France, en route principally for portant band of hashish dealers August, 1926,

tween the Murray and the Victor- for the American composed principally of "toughs" hauls the Melbourne express be- Hamburg

This out- He asked to see what goods they ian order. and the Far East."

Although the locomotives speed Fort Sald, Genoa, Maraeilles, Algiers, Oran, Rotterdam (Amsterdam)market and Marseilles for Egypt from Upper Egypt.

put is sufficient to supply 187,- had for sale, and was shown them---

on steel tyres, these metal treads. Hamburg, Oslo, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Ports.

000,000 medical "ahots" of heroin but only in a lonely spot and when per month-or a double dose for surrounded by 20 of the "tough" have to be replaced, for they wear armed with stout clubs. He was in time. This wear varies accord-

would 3,000,000 dope addiets per day.

told that all transactions

be of service run-from 14 months to The three principal lines for the take place under similar conditions.ing to the type of engine and class

When will the drug traffic

five years, and from 28,000 to 261,- conditions. 000 miles. Sandy together with operation on light, narrow rails, produces a maximum It is the question which incvit-wear on tyres.-Reuter. ably rises in the mind of overy reader, of the report. And Rus- ael! Pasha answers that the nar- cotle police can only triumph when the Powers of the World combine.

via

Manila and Straits Settlements

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£65

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Sailing about 20th June. 28th July.

"run out" are stated to be;

1. Vienna, Marseilles, Berlin and Hamburg for America and the Far East.

2. Nish, Saloniku, Athens and Cyprus for Egypt.

3. Salonika, Smyrna for Egypt,

Istanbul

VALUABLE FIND.

and

The finding of a code book htd a pocket book in the baggage of a man which was searched by the Alexandria Customs is described in the report.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

finally obliterated?

PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

"Are civilised countries agreed or are they not that narcotic traffle is a world menace?" he demands. "Ask them individu- ally and they can only answer

yes. Why then will they not combine and classify narcotic International tracking as on crimo?"

"If we mean what we say let us Internation- fight the traffickers with their own weapons. They are alised, let us do the same"--Reuter.

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I THINK I'D LIKE A

HUEVOS RANCHEROS...

WHAT IS IT LIKE ANYWAY, BILLY BOWLESS F

IT'S EGGS,POACHED IN A FINE TOMATO SAUCE-THEN THAT'S SERVED ON A FRIED TORTILLA WHICH IS

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WHY CAN'T WE GET SHAM POO TO MAKE

SOME FOR

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