TRAFFIC IN DRUGS.
. A MASS PROSECUTION.
ABsn CIATIO!T —COPTRTf"."- ' .yWJQHns IKD U.S. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
I| Received April 16th, 8.15 p.m.) It PARIS.. April 16. PL rrec^ona l Court, the trial opened of seventy-eight persons in the "dope" traffic, of f"fc 0 r^"one were women, nine docchemists, and "fat Raol," M the "cocaine king of Monti ??!!**•" would need the pen of a | to describe the horrors of oplf 0 or ' es rev °aled. Every degree tyranny was represented. were men and women who seemi wconsoious of the degradation they while otliers were inteljjyi CT idently engaged in a ceaseagainst the temptation, of the women were mere girls, mass 'prosecution is a result of Igjnes commencing in 1921, which cer ' ;a ' ;i doctors .and chembeen selling .cocaine without entries in the prison register, fc. e ."irately overlooking the evib 0 fraud on the part of "dopers."
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17740, 17 April 1923, Page 9
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