THE DRUG TRAFFIC.
FIVE ARRESTS MADE.
NARCOTIC VALUED AT £2OOO.
KING.
(Per Press Association —Copyright). (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) « OTTAWA, December 30. •The first fruits of four months' co-
Deration between the Canadian and inited States authorities were gath-red-at Montreal to-day with the arsst of five men and the seizure of arcotios valued at 10,000 dollars; uniyering the operations of the largest rug ring in North America. Jttr P. W. Cowan (chief of the narmc branch of the Canadian Departlent of HealtK) said the investigators ained the confidence of the ring, reresenting themselves as United States uyers. The drugs apparently entered le Dominion by the Atlantic seaboard, im-runners playing a considerable art. A central plant is believed to rist, but has not yet been recovered. The recent seizures at Chicago, Debit and Winsor (Ontaria) all emanted from Montreal, which Mr Cowan lid had been the base of half the trade ir the Continent for many years. I
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 5
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158THE DRUG TRAFFIC. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 5
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