DRUG TRAFFIC
BULGARIA AS CENTRE FOUR FACTORIES WORKING LONDON. March 22 "The career of London's 'Drug Barons' has reached its zenith, and is now declining," says Mr. Thomas Russell, director of the Egyptian Central Narcotics Bureau, according to the Cairo correspondent of the Times. Russell Pasha, commandant of the Cairo City Police, describes a huge organisation by which drugs are sent to the Continent. Worth hundreds of pounds a' kilogram, the drugs are exported to Europe by the ton, labelled "Creme de Beaute" and "Spaghetti." Bulgaria, where at least four factories are working, has replaced Turkey as the world's centre of the illicit traffic. The largest factory produces, every two months, 1500 kilograms of heroin, which is sufficient to give a double dose daily to 3,000,000 addicts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 9
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