GRAVE SCANDAL IN EGYPT
DEADLY DRUG FQR LABOURERS. DISHONESTY OF OVERSEERS. The Cairo police discovered that .‘SO dock labourers for months have been paid in heroin, while the overseers pocketed their wages. The overseers were convicted, one being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined £.'5400. Others wore sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined £3OO. The labourers received quantities of heroin at each meal and were provided with ramshackle lodgings at night. One overseer had 150 packets when arrested.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 4
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80GRAVE SCANDAL IN EGYPT Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 4
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