A vivid picture of the enormous damage that opium and other drugs were doing to Egypt, was painted by Russel Pasha, Cairo's chief of police, when addressing the Opium Committee as representative of the Egyptian Government. Russel declared that the most draconic punishments meted out to drug Smugglers had failed to exterminate the practice and that to-day out of Egypt's total population of 14,000,- (000 people, fully 500,000 had boce: addicts to opium, cocaine, morphing and other narcotics.
The most. alarming aspect of the question was the fact that the drug it was penetrating into the rural districts where it was sapping the health of the country's population and where even youth was beginning to fall victim to the habit. In conclusion, Russel Pasha asserted that most of the drugs smuggled into Egypt originated in France and Switzerland.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, Writing in the newspaper Young, Tndia, Mr. Gandhi, the well-known Indian Nationalist leader, says that there will be no further talk of civil disobedience if Britain initiates the reforms he suggests, including total prohibition, the reduction by half certain taxes and of the salaries of those in the higher grade of the service, a protective tariff on foreign' cloth, the abrogation of the sedition Section in the penal code, the granting of an amnesty to all political prisoners, except murderers, and the abolition of the criminal investiga tion department—Reuter, Lowoox, Jan. 29:—H. M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Joseph Addison, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pier potentiary at Riga, Reval and Kovno to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prague. British Wireless through Reuter.
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