DRUGS FOR AMERICA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 March 1931, Page 5

DRUGS FOR AMERICA

THROUGH FRENCH PORTS

PARIS POLICE VIGILANCE.

In an anti-drug propaganda campa jo*!! in America it is stated that the hnlk of the forbidden drugs imported, into the United States pass through l French ports. , , ~ . Jt is admitted nl Paris that this is probably true, but objection is taken to the insinuation that this may be due to any slackness or indifference on the part of the French authorities. The drugs are sent out of the country under false declarations, and it is obviously impossible for even the most highly organised service to examine every ton of merchandise shipped. The fight of the authorities in France aeainst the illicit drug dealeis is being "steadily intensified. During the past year the anti-drug brigade o 1 the Paris police alone seized drugs to the value of £120,000. As the drug dealers usually sell their wares to secret clients at rates far above the real market prices, it is estimated that they have thus been deprived of anticipated profits of not less than £400,00).