nos Oun Own Comnespoxven Cairo, July 5.
In the articles published on the traffic, mention was made of the fact that there were now proofs that the drug was beginning to come ty Europe from the factories which had been set up in China to replace those confiscated in European countries. Reference was made to the recent capture of drugs showing a definite connection with China in that soma of it was wrapped in Chinese newspapers.
This latter information was not altogether accurate. It has since turned out that it was not Chinese news-Papers but the front page of the "North-China Daily News" of January 10, 1934, that was used!
Full particulars of the haul in question have only now become Available as a result of the sentence fof fourteen men, out of eighteen accused, to an aggregate imprisonment of 27 years and £E, 6300 fine The discovery was made tu amazing manner and makes a really good story. An Egyptian, who had just finished serving a term of imprisonment for theft, was walking oon after his release along a street In Cairo when his attention was attracted by a lady followed by a boy carrying a valise. He saw them one ter a house, and, hanging about until the coast was clear, he forced an entrance and got hold of the valise. He took it to the room he was occupying. On opening the bag he found it contained six rubber sacks each containing a white powder. He could not understand what this'
he related his find to a fellow thief who, recognizing the white powder to be heroin and; knowing to what value it could be turned, set about devising scheme for retailing the powder.
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