Cairo, Apr. 20, In view of the announced. intens tion of the Turkish Government to establish @ monopoly for the mant facture of drugs and to take 0 the three existing. factories in Constantinople as from September next, the opium figures published by the Turkish Government ara eloquent.
The Turkish opium crop is esti mated at 480,000 kilos a year, of Which 400,000 kilos are. export If the whole crop is converted to, morphine, this represents 66 tons morphine whereas the legitimate world requirements, ace cording to the League of Nations experts, ave only ten tons a year.
'A ton of heroin-is calculated to be equal to a hundred million doses, Seven, kilow of Turkish opium cost £10 and produce a kilo of morphine, the sale price of which is about £30, The Constantinople factories last month reported that their total Rocks were 1095 kilos, of heroin and 600 kilos of morphine—Reuter,
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