THE DOPE MENACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE DOPE MENACE.

FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFIC. The illicit traffic in drugs manufactured in Western Europe to which ihe Geneva Convention applies has to all intents and purposes disappeared. This statement was made in London lately by Mr. M. D. Perrins, of the British Home Office, the administrative officer of the Dangerous Drugs Act. There was some reason to hope, he said, that the traffickers would also be driven from Turkey, which was the source of much of the illicit traffic. Perrins said that in the record of the fight against this traffic there were true stories quite equal in excitement to the average fiction on the subject. 'lhe principal markets for smuggling drugs were now the United States, China, Eeypt, India, the South American Republics, and, to a lesser extent, Canada. In the United States, he said, the problem was intimately connected with rumrunning. At present the principal world route:? followed by smugglers were from the Dardanelles to Marseilles, and thence to the United States and the Far East.