HEROIN AND COCAINE
CASES. SEIZED IN PARIS. ■ PART OF “DIPLOMATIC VALISE/’ LONDON, July 10. Consternation reigns in the French Foreign Office, and also in the diplomatic corps, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail, following the discovery that four wooden cases from Germany claimed by Sirdar Nabi Khan, a close friend of ex-King Amanullah—he was formerly the Afghan Minister at Paris, and' is now Minister at Moscow—contained £6OOO worth of heroin and cocaine. The cases were labelled “ Second-hand clothing,” and’ were claimed as part of the “ diplomatic valise.” One fell off a lorry while they were being taken to the Embassy, revealing a white powder which was analysed as heroin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20781, 29 July 1929, Page 10
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111HEROIN AND COCAINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 20781, 29 July 1929, Page 10
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