BATTLE AGAINST DOPE
HUNT FOR "KING"
THREE COUNTRIES JOIN
BUCHAREST, Nov. IP,
The "king" of the Near Eastern dope traffic, and chief of a Cairo organisation which has representatives in every large port in the world, has fled disguised into Europe, with the police of three countries at his heels. He is now at large in Eumanla.
Cairo's Central Narcotic Intelligence Bureau, secret service of the battle against dope, have asked the .Rumanian police to catch him at all costs. -'(0 ?'..,< The bureau state that he is- the greatest and mpst dangerous dopetrafficker in the world. Since childhood —he is now , 0*0 —he has been smuggling cocaine, hashish, and opium.
He was recently caught in Cairo and fined £IOO,OOO. He escaped and disappeared, as he has always done before. An agent of the bureau pursued him to Bulgaria, but he slipped away in Sofia and, fled over the Kumauian frontier with u .squad of police on his trail.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 8
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