CAIRO'S DRUG RING
RAIDS BY AUTHORITIES The international drug .ring against which Scotland Yard has been acting ho vigorously in London has obtained a stranglehold in Cairo. Much dope is being smuggled into Egypt via Greece. The Customs authorities at Alexandria have raided a large sailing vessel off that port, discovering tins of hashish and boxes of opium, while from the sea, where the smugglers had thrown them, more tins of hashish were salved. Russell Pnshn, the commandant of the Cairo police, has formed a special anti-narcotic bureau to deal with the problem, and is preparing to make a big sweep of the pedlars. Meanwhile, he is appealing to the public for support; Tie says: "Individual family grief ami family shame must be welded into a national determination to cure the country of this evil." He urges the educated classes to boycott and ostracise those who indulge in a vice that is ruining Egypt.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 5
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