DRUG TRAFFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 21 September 1923, Page 5

DRUG TRAFFIC.

SERIES OF LONDON PROSECU-

TIONS.

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION -COPYBIGHT

LONDON, Sept. 19

A long series of prosecutions in drug trafficking in London aire being carried out: To-day's cases included two Chinamen 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 co came to coloured men at a black man's cafe in the Tottenham Court Road. She resolutely refused to disclose the source of her supplies, and said: "I'm not such a mug as to tell you. You'v*> gorj me and the stuff and that is enough " .

The big profits of the trade were revealed, by the prosecution. Two Swedish merchants were charged with offering 3_ kilos of cocaine, on which thej claimed to make a profit of £5000 nei kilo by selling it to night clubs. The men's profit was sixty times the real value of the drug.