BIG COCAINE HAUL
Cocaine valued at £l-5,000 was seined following a dramatic series ofevents in which wireless played an important part at Calcutta in April. Following a radio message from the British India Steam Navigation Company’s liner Talma, a Calcutta port tug rushed at full steam on a six-miles dash to tl.a month of the Ganges, and arrested the occupants of a river boat who had been seen by the captain of the liner sending signals to the shore. As the tug approached the smugglers were seen to throw rubber bags into the water. Their leader escaped by jumping overboard and swimming ashore, hut seven members of the gang were taken into custody. Jhe tng s crew fished out the rubber bags, which were full of. cocaine to the value' ol £15.0(10. This is one of the biggest jiauis ever made on the Ganges.
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Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 12
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144BIG COCAINE HAUL Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 12
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