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Show THE STANDARD - EXAMINER' S PAGE OF FOREIGN DISPATCHES I 1im DRUG ADOlCfS ON I Frequenters of Wight Clubs I and Cabarets Who Crave i New Sensation Turn- ing to Cocaine B1 PA1 I BREVFST1 R International News Service Staff Correspond! Cor-respond! nt I LONDON. Sept. 18. England Is experiencing ex-periencing one of the worst ilopf waves In history, uecordlng to Scotland Yard Official! who arc working day nnd j night to check the Illegal traffic in drugs lopo taJdn gained a tremendous impetus, according to the London alcuths, after the famous c.-.se of BUlie! Carlton, a popular young English act-! ress, who committed suicide about a I year and a half uco by taking un over-! - doso of cocaine. Tho majority of the drug addict aro young women and men ranging! between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five yean These young peo- pie are ever seeking ft new sensation. Vhey are the habitues Of London's niglit clubs, or cabarets, and the ultrn-tmart ultrn-tmart restaurants and hotels ot the; fashionable West End. "RATTLE lilt IS." The contempt ot London's famous detective organisation for these young dope addicts is supreme; thev term them a set of you.ig rattle brains"; who, after exhausting all the various, sensations of Ainerlcau cocklulls. which are concocted by the hundreds in the night clubs, have taken to drugs for want of a new sensation They; oven intimate that dope would be a I public benefactor if it cleared London j i i .his class of Idle young sensation seekers it would at least do them B good turn and allow them to take a i est. The publicity which was given to tho k Itilllo Carlton case attracted the attention at-tention of London's gilded youth who at that time were listening to their' lust jazz music and on whom the tuslc Of unfamiliar cocktails had begun to, cloy, so they tried ' coke" and "snow just for the fun of It. Tho disastrous results of trying! drugs Just for the experience is plain-, ly seen In the West End of London-PICADILIA London-PICADILIA II KI m 1 PlCidllly, which the Iondoncr loves to call the center of the woi Id, or the hub of the universe, has become the center of underworld drug trafficking uecordlng to my Informant. The number of drunken dint rs and dancers in the restaurants, hotels and cabarets have almost disappeared, and Instead nervous younK men and girls, with cheeks 01 tho pallor whlcn dope, alone product'3. with eyes undei which dark circles -are perceptible, are to be found raising their food or glasses to; their mouths with shaking hands, which might seem to keep time to the eccentric hurmcnile waves of the Jaz,:'.- ' Intoxicated negroes of the band. On the streets of the Wert End. on 1 Piccadilly, Coventry street and Shafts- bury avenue and the innumerable;' email streets and cul de sacs leading iff these main thoroughfares arc to ' he found the worst examples or the ultimate ul-timate results of the drug habit, lean- .i lug or huddled against tho doorways,; Sleeping In the area ways leading from restaurant kitchens at night- They will ' t'li :m. i-uiiioic pedestrian tho etory 1 o. their downfall for the price of a ' cup of coffee and u sandwich. M DETECTIVES W ITCH. 1 They get Ihelr "coko" or "snow" 1 1 from seemingly well-to-flo young men ' ibout town, who frequent the restau- 1 rants nnd cabarets and peddle the drugs to their customers The detoc- 1 lives jdt among the diners and danc- ' ers and keep their eyes open Often1' they see couple afler couple go up ' and exchange a woid or two of greet- ' ing with a young man sitting alone, 1 und, although no object has been seen : to change hands, the man is w.iUhcd ' Sometimes it results In the discovery 1 of the source of his dope from a dot- ' Inr nr .Ir.Mlwt Af ll,n r. ..... o ...... rtn rnkla ' Iot drugs in his fashionable flat but more often than not the miscreant goes unconvicted, as the sleuths cannot can-not establish sufficient evidence against him because of his well-guarded methods, it generally results In a direct warning to the drug trafficker. The one outstanding feature of tho Whole dope wave is that there are CfrW convictions for drug trafficking,; and Londoner- are beginning to ask' themselves If their police are lncapa-j lie of coping with this nsw menace Scotland Yard thinks that the night1 c'ubs, or cabarets, are the source of1 11 the trouble, and that If they Were tioBed tho drug wave would die a natural nat-ural death It points out that a for-' iner notorious member of New York's underworld, now the proprietor of one! I" of London's best-known cabarets, was implicated in tho Bllllc Carlton case j Close down the night clubs, Is the crj of Scotland Yard, and there will bs no more dope The opium Joints of Llrnehouse ate as Innocent as roun-j try pasturc-3 compared to these dens! of iniquity- oo |