The Archive · 1937

HOW DRUG EVIL MAY BE 'CURBED

Cairo, May 20.

The fact now, beyond dispute that the world source of illicit white drugs to-day Ig China north of the Great Wall and some distance south fof it and that these areas are under [direct and indirect Japanese control says. Russell Pasha in is a report to the Central Narcotics Inleligence Bureau.

The chief market of this Chinese-produced heroin, he adds, is America lby way of the Suez Canal. ie recommends tighter control of the Canal Zone in close ce-operation with Esypl, Britain and America and de~ mands that the world should "not be re-poisoned solely and entirely for the monetary profit of a mob of International rascals living " under the protection of the political chaos in the Far East."—Reuter,

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