Basle, Nov, 14.
What promises tobe the most sensational case in history in. the fight against the trafic in drags—case involving millions of Swiss rans hundreds. of pounds of illicit international gang raficking: in, dope—i opening "here on Monday in the presence of Te-presentatives of the League of The proceedings are a sequel to Giscovery by the Egyptian Customs in 1929 of a consignment of heroin despatched om Basle, which ]was subsequently discovered to be a manufacturing centre, Agents from almost all the Central Europea countries and the Orient are implicated and every capital in the world is indirectly involved.
she facts of the case are On November 15, 1929, Egyptian Customs officers in! Alexandria dis overed twenty cases of heroin, disguised as "glue," in the cargo of Italian steamer Bsperis Inquiries led to the un ching, of 'a_world-wide system for the dis~ tribution of the drug, which was doing manufactured in Basle, The outres of distribution included Tokyo and Buenos Aires, Tt was discovered that the chief manufacturer of the drug was Dr. Fritz Mueller, a German chemist siding. at Basle, whose collabora-fors included a Rumanian by. the name of Maurice Gruenberg. Among his other associates were an Enlishman jamed Frederick Cohn, who lad his headquarters, in Exypt, jand Kurt Smith, German, whose operations took' place in the Far East.
Tt' was also revealed that Dr. Mueller had manufactured drugs to the value of over £600,000.—Reuter.
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