HUGE OPIUM HAUL
CONSIGNED IN SAFES. A RUSSIAN ARRESTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) THE HAGUE, May 6. Great seizures of narcotics have been made at Rotterdam. The police were informed from Antwerp that a notorious smuggler of narcotics had consigned to Rotterdam two cases enclosed in safes, probably containing narcotics. The police seized the safes in a warehouse. Each case weighed 1,700 kilogrammes. They found boxes filled with raw opium packed between the outer and inner sides. The police also seized in another warehouse ten cases allegedly containing dyestuffs, which contained boxes of raw opium, also imported in safes. Altogether about 1,000 kilos of opium were seized. One of the alleged smugglers, a Russian living iu Antwerp, has been arrested.
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Southland Times, Issue 19546, 9 May 1925, Page 9
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