DRUG TRAFFIC
SORDID LONDON CHARGES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, September* 19. There is in progress a long series of prosecuting for drug trafficking in London. To-day’s cases included charges against two Chinese, from a Limehouse opium den, one of whom attacked the police with a carving knife. A young girl was sentenced to seven months’ hard labour for retailing cocaine to coloured men at the Black Man’s Cafe in Tottenham Court Road. She resolutely refused to disclose the source of her supplies. She said : “I’m not such a mug to tell you I You’ve got me and the stuff. That is enough!” The big profits of the drug-trade were revealed by the prosecution of two Swedish merchants charged with offering 3J> kilos of cocaine, whereon they were claimed to make a profit, of £5OOO per kilo, by selling it to night clubs. The men’s profits wire 60 times the real value of the drug.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5
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