DRUG SHIPMENT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 3

DRUG SHIPMENT

Rich Haul in New' York A net spread by Customs officers in New York was opened to disclose 1,000,000 dollars in narcotics, but the smugglers slipped through its meshes, states an exchange. The narcotics—'lo74 pounds concealed iri 25 crates of furs —were landed from the steamer Alesia on December 5. Since that time officers with machine guns trained on the pier' of Thirty-first Street in, Brooklyn, waited in closed motor-cars for the drug peddlers to appear. Apparently, however, they became wary when officers of the Alesia searched that vessel for a legitimate shipment which disappeared from the ship’s strong box on the voyage from Constantinople. Deciding they had escaped the trap, the Treasury Department to-day announced the capture of the narcotics.

The half-ton was reported to be the largest single seizure ever made in America. Agents who rounded up a gang of smugglers along the Atlantic coast a few months ago heard rumours of the consignment, and that it was to come from Turkey. origin of many illicit shipments. That country is not a signatory to. The Hague conventions, which prohibit narcotic shipments without permits. The Alesia was met before she touched the United States, and fallowed into Providence. R.T., agents were watching everyone who. left or went to the steamer after she docked