“SNOW" IN THE DESERT
EGYPT’S TRADE IN DRUGS VICIOUS HABIT HAS MANY ADDICTS. BIG PROFITS OFFSET BISK OF ABEEST. Beceived March 6, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, March 5. A report is being presented to the League of Nations dealing with the world smuggling of drugs. The report states that the Egyptians are rapidly becoming a race of drug addicts, in spite of the prosecution of 5600 indidivuals during the past year. The enormous profit from cocaine and heroin continues to produce new traffickers. and the arrests in Cairo average 60 a week. Egypt produces no cocaine or heroin, therefor the whole of the supplies are obtained from illicit sources
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19784, 7 March 1927, Page 7
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108“SNOW" IN THE DESERT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19784, 7 March 1927, Page 7
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