Cairo, Apr, 'Terms of imprisonment amounting' in the aggregate to 77% years and fines totalling £15,500 were inflicted this week by the Cairo Central Drug Court on 23 drug traffickers, tone of the most dangerous gangs that has ever been laid by the heels by the Central Nareoties Bureau, The organization was known as the El Sawi gang. At its head was Mohamed Aly Hassan El Sawl, a positive dictator, who with other members of his family, whom he ruled with a rod of iron, lived at Saadat el Wafaiya, a lonely spot under the shadow of the Mokattam Hills, which, towering behind the Cairo Citadel, overlook the city. The place he had selected for his lair was strategically perfect for smug-sling purposes, None but the members of his family were allowed live there, Those who married outside the family circle were immedi rely compelled to quit. There were regular look-out posts, where scauls were stationed and whence information was at once passed back if any unauthorized person was seen ing. By these means the sured that all. their secrets remained within this closely bound community. It is not surprising, therefore, that none of the numerous attempts previously made bythe authorities to. sash this combination had succeeded.
The family had been under suspicion for many years. The first occasion was when several members were implicated in arms running! the ty was but a few weeks and drug smuggling at a time when
imprisonment and a nominal amended. Sawi family grew 1928 the law was drastically 2 very cautious and it became more difficult than ever to obtain any] information.
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