Berlin, June 17.
The stock-exchange to-day showed! great weakness in reaction to the slump in Wall Sirect. Theze was a slight improvement towards the close fell by several yet reached the bottom and is here considered not as a_mei bourse manoeuvre but as a genuine ie movement.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Mi A ton of narcotics, valued £30,000, has been seized by the Customs at Marseilles.
The drugs were concealed in case which had been landed by an Italian steamer from Turkey, some of them having been placed aboard the sel for shipment to the Far East.
The seizure was made as the result of information received in Patia to the effect that an into organi cargo of cocaine, heroin and morphine from Stamboul to Marseilles, to be transhipped from there for Saigon and Sbanghai.. Reuter.
Traffic on Amazing Scale Marseilles, June 22.
Further revelations concerning the illicit drug traffic ring reported yesterday show that it must have worked on an amazing scale. Folioving the discovery and confiscation of nearly 400 Ib. of cocaine on a steamer al Bordeaux, the police today searched one British and one Italian steamer arriving here from Constantinople when as much as 1,000 kilograms of morphine, Kervine and cocaine consigned partly to South Africa and pai to China and Indo-China wer? found and confiscated—Trans-Ocean Kuo Mi Reaction in Canada
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