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"CAT" FOR EGYPTIANS CAIRO, Ist June. The police have arrested 500 persons and seized enormous quantities of cocaine and hashish, a potent drug compounded of hemp leaves, fcjfclowirg ff raid on the drug-trafjiokeri. in. fl» Hlfamed quarter of the cHj., ■ A. force of 750 police and r*oldien> participated; .«•'<■.Daspapate.; (resistance *W3ts anticipated, bid the traffickers surrendered quietly. The chief of police recently reported that Egyptians were rapidly becoming a race of drug addicts, and recommended thirty lashes with the cat-o'-nine tails as a deterrent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 June 1927, Page 2
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