TRAFFIC IN DRUGS
CONDITIONS AT CAIRO. . LONDON, 'September 17. In the course of a discussion on the drug traffic, says the Geneva correspondent of The Times, several delegates expressed disappointment that, in spite of the League’s efforts, the traffic of late had greatly increased. For example, the Egyptian Government department reported a terrible state of demoralisation in certain areas of Cairo, to which drugs were taken from all parts of the world. The two most important channels wore through Vienna-, and through Switzerland. Separate gangs existed in Vienna for sending first-class passengers to Alexandria equipped with .so-called, American wardrobes, meaning travelling trunks, containing secret compartments.
It was revealed that a certain Swiss factory produced a drug possessing all the harmful effects of heroin, but so manufactured that it could not he classed among prohibited drugs. The British delegates gave notice of a resolution callng on all Governments to reach an agreement fixing the maximum annual total for the manufacture of various drugs, and also allotting a fixed quota of this for each lifanufacturing country.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 5
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